"Refugee" Greed

[Black Orchid]

A refugee who previously said Australia abandoned him in Cambodia now acknowledges he received a lump sum of $38,000 for the education and health insurance of his children, on top of $60,000 in previous payments.

Abdullah Zalghani fled Syria with his wife and children in 2011, but left them in Lebanon while he tried to reach Australia.

His boat from Indonesia was stopped on the way to Australia in 2013, and he was detained on Christmas Island and Nauru.

In 2016, Mr Zalghani agreed to be resettled in Cambodia.

In exchange he was to receive a package of cash and payments to a bank account totalling $60,000, as well as in-kind assistance, mostly provided by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

His wife and four children joined him in Phnom Penh in December.

Abdullah Zalghani told the ABC in May that the Australian Government had reneged on promises to provide "local private school" for up to four years and health insurance for up to five years for his children.

"It's difficult here — my kids cannot go to school," Mr Zalghani said at the time.

Australia's Department of Home Affairs said it would not comment on an individual case.

However, after the ABC published the story, the Department of Home Affairs sent a further statement on June 12 saying Mr Zalghani was given a lump sum to fund schooling and health for his children.

"It was emphasised to Mr Zalghana that it was his responsibility to use the lump sum to cover his family's health, education and other expenses as he saw fit," said a spokesperson for the Department, using a different spelling of his name.

"Mr Zalghana acknowledged this would be the last payment, and that he and his family were settled and established in Cambodia," said the Department spokesperson.

The Department also said that Mr Zalghani and his family were allowed to stay at temporary accommodation provided by the IOM for longer than the initially agreed period of three months.

"During this time IOM supported the family to carry out renovation works on their permanent accommodation to ensure it was suitable for the whole family," the spokesperson said.

"The Australian Government has honoured all of its commitments to Mr Zalghana," the Department said.

Mr Zalghani says money will not cover his costs

This month, Abdullah Zalghani told the ABC he did receive a lump sum in 2018.

"Yes, I received $38,350, but this amount is not for health insurance and study, because study and health insurance for four to five years is much higher than this amount," said Mr Zalghani.

Mr Zalghani said he signed a document accepting the payment before he understood how much education and health insurance costs in Cambodia.

The cost of private schools vary greatly in Phnom Penh — from small, locally-run single classrooms for a few hundred dollars a year, to the very top level of international education, priced at tens of thousand of dollars annually.

The International School of Phnom Penh, favoured by Australian diplomats, costs between $26,000 and $31,000 per child, depending on their age.

Mr Zalghani told the ABC he was looking at schools which charge around $2,800 a year for each child.

He estimated that health insurance for the whole family would cost around $7,000 a year.

At these prices, the total cost for education and health insurance as per the Australian agreement would be $79,800.

The refugee said he spent some of the $38,000 lump sum repaying debts to relatives who looked after his wife and children while he was held in detention.

"I returned the money to those who were helping my family in the absence of seven years," Mr Zalghani told the ABC.

Some of the money was also spent setting up a restaurant in Phnom Penh, but the business lost money and was sold to a Cambodian earlier this year, he said.

The refugee's case has been taken up by the National Justice Project, which has formally requested the Commonwealth comply with its undertakings to Mr Zalghani.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-29/ ... h/11257974

So taxpayers cough up almost $100,000 grand for this guy. He starts a restaurant that consequently fails and now he wants more?

[IQS.RLOW]

Its no wonder the left fucking fawn over these money grubbing bullshit artists and provide a raft of excuses for them...

The left worship this level of entitlement ability to fleece taxpayers.

[The Reboot]

Its no wonder the left fucking fawn over these money grubbing bullshit artists and provide a raft of excuses for them...

The left worship this level of entitlement ability to fleece taxpayers.

It's because they can't think for themselves and think they are racking up moral brownie points by pigeon holing people into categories of "oppression". They need to be wiped from the face of the planet.

[billy the kid]

Im confused.
The IOM (International Order for Migration) created the GCM (Global Compact for Migration)
The Australian Government refused to sign the GCM on 19.12.2018.
Apparently Morrison was concerned that the pact could undermine Australias strong
border protection laws and practises.
If this was the case in 2018, why was any money paid to Zalghani in the first place.
Was he paid by the IOM or by the Australian Government.
The Australian Department of Home Affairs states that Australia has honoured its obligations to Zalghani.
What, pray tell are our obligations to boat people such as Zalghani...
If we did not sign the GCM why should we have to pay anything to refugees...particularly if they are
housed on Naru or Manus Island....they are not even on Australian soil...they are not Australian citizens...
I can only presume that the National Justice Project is staffed by the looney left...
Someone has some explaining to do...
Am I missing something here....

[Black Orchid]

From the same article ...

The resettlement deal with Cambodia cost Australian taxpayers $55 million, with $40 million as aid to the Cambodian government and $15 million to the IOM to provide services.

The IOM will officially end all Australian-funded support services to these three refugees on Sunday.

How many were resettled there? 3?

Then I found this ...

Amnesty International, a human rights group that supported the pact, said the countries that refused to endorse it — including the United States, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Austria — had been responsible for the “worst abuses against migrants in recent years.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global ... tion-pact/

Mr Zalghani and his ilk have been shockingly abused apparently?

[billy the kid]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ays-dutton

This whole Cambodian gig was a scam...it collapsed in 2015...yet it still cost us $55million....wtf is going on....

[Black Orchid]

It gets worse

Four refugees – an Iranian couple, an Iranian man and a Rohingyan man from Burma – were transferred from Nauru to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh in June. They live in relative luxury in an Australian-funded villa, and will remain there indefinitely.

However, Cambodia expects it will take no more from Australia’s resettlement plan, which has so far cost $55m, or more than $13m per refugee.

“We don’t have any plans to import more refugees from Nauru to Cambodia,” interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak told the Cambodia Daily. “I think the fewer we receive the better.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... e-refugees

[billy the kid]

This smells...the media should be all over it...

[IQS.RLOW]

This smells...the media should be all over it...

Its basically chicken feed when you consider the money that Dudd/Dullard/Dudd pissed up against the wall when they had to commandeer and barbwire fence govt buildings around the country as reffo interment camps.

How ever, the leftist media won't risk revealing the "poor oppressed asylum seekers" are just entitled money grubbing tax hoovers.
That would be giving up one of their best pawns. Like a pimp letting go of their best whore. Protecting their pawn from being seen for what they are far outweighs trying to embarrass a conservative govt and their attempts to fix a problem created by an idiot leftist govt.

[FLEKTARN]

You're chewin the same thing over and over again and nothing changes. Get over it. Either do something, or accept your fate.