Strewth mate! Crocodile Dundee actor chases missing offshore millions

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Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan wants his millions back from Switzerland, but his Geneva intermediaries refuse to give him the money.

Hogan is accusing his once-trusted tax adviser of absconding with $34m he helped Hogan hide in offshore tax havens, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). There is already an international warrant out for Philip Egglishaw, the man known as the ''bowler hat Englishman'', who is the alleged mastermind behind Australia's biggest tax evasion scheme. But now the international fugitive has the Australian actor on his tail, with Hogan's advisers taking legal action in the US alleging Egglishaw, who set up elaborate corporate structures in tax havens to...

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