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Pether and his Egyptian colleague Khalid Radwan were detained in Baghdad in 2021 after flying in for a meeting with bank officials to resolve a dispute with…
The Guardian reports: Pether and his Egyptian colleague Khalid Radwan were detained in Baghdad in 2021 after flying in for a meeting with bank officials to resolve a dispute with his engineering firm, CME Consulting.
We were innocent when we were taken on the 7th of April 2021, and we remain innocent today.
This politics story centres on Australia. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Ukraine, Robert Pether and Australian.
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