Nauru’s President David Adeang, a predecessor and other individuals have been accused in the Senate of corruptly siphoning off millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money intended for the island’s arcane offshore processing regime.

A previously unreleased report by Australia’s financial intelligence agency, Austrac, suspected Adeang of “corruption and money laundering” after detecting a “rapid movement of large volume and value of funds”, the Senate has been told.

The Greens senator David Shoebridge read sections of the unreleased Austrac report into Hansard in the Senate on Tuesday night . He alleged that the Albanese government had signed a $2.5bn deal with Adeang to deport more than 350 people in the NZYQ cohort to the tiny Pacific nation, despite knowing of the agency’s suspic

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