A court hearing that ended in Salim Mehajer being declared bankrupt should have been adjourned because the controversial Sydney businessman was in jail at the time, his lawyer says.
The former Auburn deputy mayor was declared bankrupt by a Federal Circuit Court judge in March, before he was granted bail in early April over claims he staged a car crash and defrauded an insurance company.
The 31-year-old’s lawyer, David Hume, has asked the Federal Court to annul the decision and Justice Michael Lee has adjourned the case to later on Thursday.
Mehajer, who was not present in court, recently announced on social media platform Instagram that he had lodged the application to “set aside this joke”, claiming “only God can bankrupt me”.
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