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