Salim Mehajer is close to bankruptcy and may lose his home, supercars
HE’S lost his wife and his freedom, been twice convicted of assault and ordered to anger management classes. Now Salim Mehajer is on the brink of bankruptcy, with a judge deciding as early as today whether he’ll lose the flashy house and supercars.
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HE’S lost his wife and his freedom, been twice convicted of assault and ordered to anger management classes.
Now Salim Mehajer is on the brink of bankruptcy, with a judge deciding as early as today whether the flashy house and supercars he’s bragged of owning can be pursued by creditors.
The bankruptcy trigger for the troubled former Auburn mayor and property developer could be pulled by a debt of almost $800,000 owed by Mehajer’s company SM Projects to the tax office.
Supporting the Australian Taxation Office in the bankruptcy action is Greenacre company Prime Marble & Granite, owed almost $596,178 for the opulent floating marble staircase at Mehajer’s Lidcombe home.
Prime also has also racked up $400,000 in legal bills pursuing the debt.
Other creditors have pursued Mehajer’s companies through the Supreme Court for debts totalling $97 million. Mehajer’s three-year ban from managing corporations expires in November.
Mehajer, 31, is in breach of a confidential settlement agreed with SM Projects, prompting liquidator Anthony Elkerton to seek today’s Federal Circuit Court hearing to appoint a bankruptcy trustee.
Trustees have powers to investigate all assets owned by people declared bankrupt. Mehajer owns the $3.8 million flashy Lidcombe house which featured on his infamous wedding in 2015 to Aysha Learmonth. The couple broke up in 2016.
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Mehajer listed the property for rent at $3000 per week in August last year. Two creditors have caveats over the property, purchased for $565,000 more than a decade ago and rebuilt into a four-storey, six bedroom home with a 13-car basement garage and pool.
Today’s court action comes after Mehajer copped his second criminal conviction in a week yesterday after being sentenced for assaulting a taxi driver and smashing a woman’s mobile phone outside The Star casino on April 2 last year.
Magistrate Vivien Swain convicted Mehajer at Downing Centre Local Court and ordered he be placed on a three-year good behaviour bond and undergo anger management.
Mehajer had pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damage and destroy property.
Police facts tendered in court state an altercation erupted when Mehajer and his friends were leaving The Star casino at 4.30am and began chatting to four women waiting for an Uber. That resulted in Mehajer throwing one of the women’s phones before jumping in a cab where another clash ensued.
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“I go crazy in seconds. I am getting angry you f---ing dog,” Mehajer said, and threw an EFTPOS machine at the taxi driver, giving him a bloodied nose.
The next morning when he was released from custody Mehajer assaulted Channel 7 journalist Laura Banks as she asked him questions while he was trying to close his car door.
Last week he was convicted for that offence with no further penalty.
Mehajer’s lawyer Phillip Boulten SC told Ms Swain that Mehajer, “lost his cool,” that night. “It can simply be said to be a loss of control which he does sincerely regret,” Mr Boulten said.
Mehajer is on remand in Silverwater jail on an unrelated matter.