Ken Talbot (26 August 1950 – 19 June 2010) was an Australian mining executive, he was the principal

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and former

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of the Macarthur Coal Ltd mining company. He was the only child of Norman and Nita Talbot (née McIntyre). Talbot temporarily stood down as the CEO of the Macarthur Group Companies when he became embroiled in a controversy involving loans to controversial

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Gordon Nuttall Gordon Richard Nuttall (born 13 June 1953) is a former Australian politician who represented Sandgate in the Queensland Parliament from 1992 to 2006. He was a member of the Labor Party and served as a minister in the Beattie Ministry from ...

, who was jailed for

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in July 2009. At the time of his death, he was a shareholder in

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n mining company

Sundance Resources Sundance Resources Limited is an Australian mining company, based in Perth, Western Australia, whose main assets are iron ore leases in Cameroon near Mbalam, and across the border in the Republic of Congo. Following the loss of the Congo mining li ...

. On 19 January 2007, the

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Crime and Misconduct Commission charged Talbot with corruptly making payments totalling close to $360,000 to Nuttall. He was due to face court in

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on 30 August 2010 on 35 charges relating to corruption.

Death

On Saturday, 19 June 2010, Talbot was on a chartered flight between

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and Congo with his personal assistant, Natasha Flason as well as fellow Sundance Resources executives Geoff Wedlock, Don Lewis, John Carr-Gregg, John Jones and Craig Oliver, when the plane went missing. Rescuers found the wreckage of a missing plane carrying nine passengers and two crew, suspected to be Talbot's aircraft, in Congo on 21 June. There were no survivors. Talbot's funeral was held on 14 July 2010. The corruption proceedings against Talbot were formally discharged on 12 August 2010.

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