Gina Rinehart defrauded her children over iron ore assets, lawyer alleges in court battle

Billionaire Gina Rinehart committed fraud with iron ore mining tenements now worth billions of dollars, a lawyer for her two eldest children claimed in court

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Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, committed egregious fraud", a trial over billions of dollars in iron ore riches has been told.

A lawyer for Rinehart's children says there is clear evidence that mining licences were unlawfully transferred to her company, Hancock Prospecting, and a subsidiary after her father, Lang Hancock, died in 1992.

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