As per the authorities, an individual who has been identified within the documents as Daniel Alexandrov, is supposed to receive unauthorised access to certain digital systems which are supposedly associated with Rusal Australia Pty Ltd. This is the subsidiary of UC Rusal, which is the co-owner of QAL with Rio Tinto.
Moreover, the employees at the firm have also reported suspicious activity and have further communicated with QAL as well as Victoria Police as a preventive measure from being reissued and blocking access to the firm's corporate registry information.
Concurrently, the investigators suspect the same individual gained unauthorised access to the firm's Australian Taxation Office (ATO) online account. This comes after the removal of the legitimate account administrator as well as the changed nominated banking details prior to submitting a refund claim of nearly USD 2.3 million.
Before the start of the investigation, the ATO had already released a payment of USD 81 thousand, which, however, was halted soon after internal systems discovered the irregularities. Soon after the halt of the payment, the formal review was launched by the authorities.
