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The Immigration Department paid more than $22.5 million over a decade to firms owned by a prominent Melbourne migration lawyer, who fled the country owing millions to the Australian Taxation Office.
Despite pocketing multiple lucrative contracts to help asylum seekers apply for Australian protection, Florin Burhala’s company BMA Lawyers is now in liquidation and owes creditors almost $1 million.
He also owes the ATO about $4 million, and questions have been raised about the quality of advice provided by his firm to asylum seekers nee…
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