Zorica McCarthy was the Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan[1] (2004–2006) who was investigated for "buying discounted shares in the failed fuel technology company Firepower (and) has been found guilty of breaching the rules but forgiven because the breach was unintentional".
[2] McCarthy was accredited as a non-resident Ambassador to Afghanistan.
[4][5][6] McCarthy bought shares in Firebrand 14 days after Firebrand and a Pakistani company signed an agreement at a ceremony she organised and was witnessed by Australia's former prime minister John Howard and Pakistan's former prime minister Shaukat Aziz.
[7] McCarthy has two daughters with ex-husband John McCarthy.
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