The Australian Taxation Office will try to force beleaguered publican Jon Adgemis into bankruptcy by the end of the week after succeeding in a bid to replace businessman Richard Gazal as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against him.
In a Federal Court room on Monday, Justice Elizabeth Raper allowed the deputy commissioner of the ATO to substitute for Gazal in his attempt to bankrupt Adgemis, because the ATO’s debts of more than $154 million were bigger than Gazal’s and existed at the time he started his lawsuit last November.
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