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Aussie actor accuses adviser of stealing millions

Australian actor Paul Hogan is accusing his former tax adviser of absconding more than $34 million he helped Hogan hide in offshore accounts.

Philip Egglishaw already has an international warrant out for his arrest. He is alleged to have masterminded Australia's biggest ever tax evasion scheme, according to Fairfax.

The international fugitive has the Crocodile Dundee star and his advisers taking legal action against Egglishaw for allegedly stealing the entertainer's money.

Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche reported Hogan's millions has not been touched for over 20 years and that he cannot get his hands on it.

According to documents filed in a Californian court by Hogan's representative, Egglishaw is alleged to have 'absconded with or spent all' of Hogan's millions.

In an email sent to Egglishaw's lawyer back in October, Hogan's legal representative accused him of theft.

"The actions of Egglishaw have now crossed the boundary of legality, and he is now engaging in criminal fraud, theft, and breach of fiduciary duty, and you are now directly aiding and abetting his criminal actions," Schuyler Moore wrote to Paul Gull-Hart.

"The Carthage Trust's beneficiary [Hogan] is not going to stand idly by in the face of this theft, and he is going to take every step possible in every country possible to hold Egglishaw, Strachans, you, and your firm liable and brought to account."

Having cleared himself of any wrongdoing with the Australian Tax Office, Hogan and his US advisers became increasingly anxious after Egglishaw refused to provide any statements relating to the millions in the Carthage Trust.

The other signatory of the Carthage account, Philip de Figueiredo, is in a Queensland prison, found guilty on three counts of trying to defraud the Australian government of more than $4 million.

The initial beneficiary of the Carthage Trust was listed as 'The British Red Cross', but documents indicated later that Hogan was the 'sole intended beneficiary'.

Hogan's Australian lawyer Andrew Robinson intended to distance his client from legal proceedings in the USA.

"Paul has never denied the existence and operation of overseas structures set up in accordance with competent advice received," he said.