Investigation

Fraud squad police execute search warrant on Sydney-based auditing firm to seize ALS Newcastle lab documents in international fake coal testing investigation

Donna Page
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:40am, first published June 17 2020 - 5:00am
TESTING TIMES: ALS's Mayfield laboratory, the company is at the centre of a scandal involving fake coal analysis reports. Picture: Marina Neil
TESTING TIMES: ALS's Mayfield laboratory, the company is at the centre of a scandal involving fake coal analysis reports. Picture: Marina Neil

STATE Crime Command police have raided the Sydney office of a forensic auditing firm as part of an international investigation into a fake coal analysis scandal centred around a Hunter-based laboratory.

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Donna Page

Donna Page

Investigative journalist at the Newcastle Herald

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