Settlement between David Crisafulli and SET Solutions liquidators negotiated

The federal government has revealed it funded a public examination to pursue trading insolvent claims of a failed company that David Crisafulli was the sole director of.

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Picture: Glenn Campbell

A settlement between David Crisafulli and liquidators of failed training company SET Solutions was negotiated after Commonwealth and Victorian governments teamed up to pursue insolvent trading claims.

As the state government continues to pepper the Opposition Leader over his historic leadership of SET Solutions, the federal government has revealed it funded a 2017 public examination into the company’s collapse.

Mr Crisafulli - who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and argued the government was “flailing for their political survival” - was sole director of SET Solutions between December 2015 and April 2016 before it collapsed in June 2016.

A spokesman for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said it and the Victorian government in 2017 funded public examinations in the liquidation of Southern Edge Training and other entities.

“The department provided funding to the liquidator to issue demands and conduct settlement negotiations in relation to insolvent trading claims against the company’s directors,” he said.

“A negotiated resolution was reached between the liquidator and Mr Crisafulli.”

It is understood the settlement was confidential.

Deputy Premier slammed Mr Crisafulli in parliament today. Picture: Glenn Campbell

The department noted no recovery action was started against the directors of SET Solutions.

Deputy Premier Cameron Dick used parliament on Wednesday to argue wrongdoing by Mr Crisafulli during his four months as a sole director of the company.

“On what planet does working for a company for four months mean that you have to pay $200,000 by way of a settlement payment? The only way that makes sense is if you had done something wrong,” Mr Dick said.

Mr Crisafulli on several occasions rose in parliament to reject Mr Dick’s claims, forcing him to withdraw.

“The member knows that is untrue,” he said.

“It is offensive.”

His office later pointed to previous statements insisting obligations were met and pointed to Mr Dick using a report he first received in February 2022 to attack Mr Crisafulli

The LNP argues the state government’s criticism is reminiscent of Labor’s 2012 efforts to attack Campbell Newman’s character as sat on the verge of becoming Queensland premier.

Mr Crisafulli on Tuesday said the government launched a “desperate, unmitigated personal attack, flailing for their political survival”.

“We will see more of this desperation as this government, which has run out of ideas and run out of a mandate for Queensland’s future, seeks to cling to power by trying to scare Queenslanders into giving them a fourth term,” he said.