I'm not sure if they're trying to avoid lawsuits or just trying to hide from the public," Mr Wolf said. The company registered the Millers Point address as a headquarters with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in January and the premises is full of staff, including one of three company directors, Evangelos Koutavakis.
In the 10 years since it was founded, URG has changed its registered Australian place of business eight times, including locations inside the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art building and at the offices of a business called Opulence Accountants and Advisors.
URG's operations have not escaped the interest of international agencies; on July 14, the United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries corresponded with the Australian Government over some of the company's actions. The chairman of the working group, Jose Gomez Del Prado, asked the Government whether it knew the nationalities of the men who shot Mary Awanis and Genevia Antranick, as well as whether the Government had conducted any investigations into the killing of Kays Juma.
These incidents, now three years old, continue to dog the company, which has received plaudits from within the Australian Defence Force for its high standards and professionalism. A senior Australian Army officer speaking to the ABC said of these outstanding controversies, "if this happened in the context of World War II", when it was common practice to destroy entire cities filled with civilians, "this wouldn't even make the news".
They don't have to live with the threat of death from a random source," he said. Unity Resources Group did not immediately respond to questions about its Chilean staff or its operations in Iraq.
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