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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian Unclair Harvey with the
- 0:04Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has some more explaining
- 0:10Speaker 1: to do. An investigation by the UK's National Audit Office
- 0:13Speaker 1: has found the former Prince charged his own staff to
- 0:17Speaker 1: rent cottages near his former home on the Windsor estate.
- 0:21Speaker 1: That's despite only paying so called peppercorn rent himself. The
- 0:25Speaker 1: former Prince Andrew was evicted from Royal Lodge, a mansion
- 0:29Speaker 1: on the Windsor estate where he lived for two decades,
- 0:32Speaker 1: by his brother, King Charles in February. That was after
- 0:35Speaker 1: renewed scrutiny of Andrew's long friendship with the convicted pedophile
- 0:39Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew's the subject of a separate police investigation
- 0:44Speaker 1: into allegations he leaked sensitive information during his tenure as
- 0:48Speaker 1: the UK's Trade Envoy. He's consistently denied wrongdoing in relation
- 0:53Speaker 1: to his links with Epstein and the allegations of misconduct
- 0:56Speaker 1: in public office, and he's never been charged with a crime.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Mount Batten Windsor was spotted on a rare public outing
- 1:03Speaker 1: on Thursday local time near the Sandringham estate where he
- 1:06Speaker 1: now lives. With what appeared to be a large purple
- 1:09Speaker 1: bruise on his face. Some reports suggest it's related to
- 1:13Speaker 1: a medical condition. The National Audit Office investigation found Andrew
- 1:17Speaker 1: sublet three cottages on the grounds of Royal Lodge to
- 1:21Speaker 1: staff and continued to collect rent payments from them after
- 1:25Speaker 1: he left. The report also makes a number of other findings,
- 1:29Speaker 1: including that another Royal residence, Forest Lodge, the home of
- 1:32Speaker 1: Prince William and his wife Catherine, was repaired at a
- 1:35Speaker 1: cost of around seven hundred and fifty thousand Australian dollars
- 1:39Speaker 1: that was covered by the Crown Estate. The King's private
- 1:43Speaker 1: property holdings and finances. The couple pay nearly five hundred
- 1:47Speaker 1: and eighty thousand dollars in rent per annum to live
- 1:50Speaker 1: at the property. A full audit by the Public Accounts
- 1:53Speaker 1: Committee into the Crown's complex finances is expected to be
- 1:56Speaker 1: handed down later this year. Hero Akhmed al Ahmed has
- 2:02Speaker 1: tearfully denied he assaulted his father after being charged with
- 2:06Speaker 1: domestic violence offenses following an alleged altercation at the family's
- 2:10Speaker 1: home in Southwest Sydney in March.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm very very I'm honest, innocent, and I am
- 2:21Speaker 2: an orbal guy and it's good for Bible to know
- 2:26Speaker 2: I never being violent guy. It's extortion and one hundred
- 2:31Speaker 2: percent it's baying back. That's what I'm gonna call it.
- 2:36Speaker 1: He was served a court attendance noticed by a New
- 2:38Speaker 1: South Wales police on Thursday to face charges of common
- 2:41Speaker 1: assault and stalking with intent to cause physical harm. He'll
- 2:45Speaker 1: appear before banks Down Local Court on July twenty nine.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Akhmed rose to prominence following the terror attack at Bondai
- 2:51Speaker 1: Beach on December fourteen. He was filmed charging down and
- 2:55Speaker 1: disarming gunman Sajid Akram. Ahmed was shot several times times
- 3:00Speaker 1: during the attack. Lend Lease has demanded Big four consulting
- 3:05Speaker 1: firm KPMG remove staff members embroiled in an alleged audit
- 3:10Speaker 1: scandal from its account. A whistleblower has alleged KPMG improperly
- 3:15Speaker 1: accessed confidential lend Lease information in order to drum up
- 3:18Speaker 1: new business with other clients. KPMG's dramas have been revealed
- 3:23Speaker 1: in a series of ripping exclusives for The Australian, which
- 3:26Speaker 1: you can check out now at The Australian dot com
- 3:29Speaker 1: dot au. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission also revealed
- 3:33Speaker 1: it's launched a formal probe into the alleged audit breaches.
- 3:39Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now, and come back
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