An MP in Federal Parliament was charged with domestic violence-related offences on two occasions last decade.

The failed Australian businessman and former confidant of the Deputy Prime Minister has a record of getting arrest. And getting off.

In the past seven months the CEO of Scale Facilitation David Collard has had his business raided by the AFP over alleged tax fraud and then wound up for insolvency, faced lawsuits for unpaid wages and debts, and defaulted on the purchase of battery start up Britishvolt. Now he’s up on assault charges in the United States.

Scale Facilitation was raided in June by the Australian Federal Police over an alleged $76m tax fraud and now tax experts in the UK are calling on authorities there to investigate the firm over its Value Added Tax (VAT) returns.

Scale Facilitation, a company raided by the AFP in June over the biggest alleged tax fraud in Australian history, established a subsidiary in Malta with the help of PwC to reduce its tax obligations, Open Politics can reveal.