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Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are saying little about a transtasman investigation into a former Australian Taxation Office employee, Nick Petroulias.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday that a dozen simultaneous police raids were carried out on November 8 in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and New Zealand.
Petroulias had been staying in the Motueka Lodge at the time of the raid and his lawyer told the Brisbane Federal Court that police and Inland Revenue staff took "everything except virtually his toothbrush".
Petroulias resigned from the tax office in 1999. His trial in 2000 for tax fraud, bribery and breach of secrecy ended in a hung jury, and he faces a retrial in March.
