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Lehrmann said he was worried about waiting for a hearing in February.
“I’m concerned in light of the rejection of legal funding [that] I am without legal representation and these investigations, as far as I’m aware, are still on foot,” Lehrmann said.
“The orders that I seek … don’t prejudice the NACC opening a new investigation. I’m just concerned [about] waiting until February that there might be some sort of Christmas raid or something.”
He said he would “correspond in the next couple of days” with the NACC to “seek some undertakings that it won’t take any further action”.
Lehrmann said in a document filed in court that the NACC executed two search warrants related to him on June 5 last year.
He says it concerned an investigation into “frivolous, James Bond-like allegations” that he used “official” information – described by him as “French submarine secrets” – gathered on March 26, 2019, for “financial, personal and professional purposes”.
Lehrmann, who was formerly employed in the office of then Liberal defence industry minister Linda Reynolds, claims he has been questioned over those allegations and a second NACC investigation.
In a separate court fight, Lehrmann has asked the Full Court of the Federal Court to overturn his damning defamation loss, including the central finding by Justice Michael Lee that he raped his then-colleague Brittany Higgins in 2019 in Reynolds’ Parliament House office. The appeal court has reserved its decision.
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