Queensland superyacht Covid breach: CEO is fined $4,000 for rugby union jaunt

Queensland superyacht Covid breach: CEO is fined $4,000 for rugby union jaunt
Queensland superyacht Covid breach: CEO is fined $4,000 for rugby union jaunt
Tech company CEO is among four high-powered mates who snuck into Queensland from Sydney on a $20,000-a-day superyacht to watch a rugby union test match – with the group fined a measly $4,000 each Four men fined for more $4,000 each after allegedly lying on border passes Left Covid-ravaged Sydney via yacht on July 7 and  sailed to the Gold Coast Travelled to Brisbane to watch rugby union Test between Australia and France Do you know more? Email [email protected] 

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A technology company CEO is one of four men fined after sneaking into Queensland from Covid-riddled Sydney on a superyacht to watch a rugby test on the Gold Coast

Jeromy Young and friends left Newport on Sydney's northern beaches on his 34.5 metre charter superyacht Dreamtime on July 6. Authorities said the party sailing north, crossed the border and docking the following day. 

The men then allegedly declared on their border passes they hadn't been in a Covid hotspot before going straight to the Australian Wallabies rugby union Test match against France at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.  

Queensland Water Police and Maritime Safety officers tracked the group down several days later.

Jeromy Young, the CEO of tech company Atomos and owner of the superyacht, was fined $4,000

Jeromy Young, the CEO of tech company Atomos and owner of the superyacht, was fined $4,000

Four men have been fined after they sailed Sydney to Queensland on charter superyacht Dreamtime, pictured moored at Southport Marina

Four men have been fined after they sailed Sydney to Queensland on charter superyacht Dreamtime, pictured moored at Southport Marina 

Mr Young, the CEO of the ASX-listed audio-visual business Atomos, is now in hotel quarantine on the Gold Coast with the rest of his party.

Each of the men have since tested negative to

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