A FARMING empire patriarch has responded to claims he and the company he was a director of traded while insolvent for 11 months.
Giatano (Guy) Barbera has vigorously disputed the allegations in papers lodged in the District Court this month in which he has asked for a judge only trial.
Mr Barbera and his company Barbera Holdings are being sued for more than half a million dollars by the liquidator of Barbera Transport for trading insolvent over an 11 month period.
Mr Barbera was the director of Barbera Transport, one of more than a dozen companies under his directorship, when it went into liquidation in February 2017 with debts of more than $800,000.
For almost 50 years the Barbera family have been farming in the Bundaberg …
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