{"id":641996,"date":"2026-05-01T04:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:54:12","slug":"palaszczuks-partner-reza-adib-charged-with-three-counts-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641996\/","title":{"rendered":"Palaszczuk\u2019s partner Reza Adib charged with three counts of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated May 1, 2026 \u2014 2:42pm,first published 1:02pm<\/p>\n

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Prominent surgeon Dr Reza Adib, the partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, has been charged with three counts of rape following a police raid on his Gold Coast apartment.<\/p>\n

Officers declared a crime scene at the Burleigh Heads apartment on Thursday, and Adib turned himself in at the Southport police station on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with three counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty.<\/p>\n

\"DrDr Reza Adib, the partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, voluntarily attended Southport Police Station on Friday afternoon.Nine News<\/p>\n

Adib left the Southport station with his lawyer on Friday afternoon just after 2pm. He did not comment to the waiting press pack.<\/p>\n

This masthead does not suggest Adib is guilty of any offence. Palaszczuk, the former long-serving Labor premier of Queensland, is not involved in the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

Detectives and specialist officers entered the apartment on Thursday morning, were spotted thoroughly searching the property and were later seen leaving with various items in bags.<\/p>\n

\"AnnastaciaAnnastacia Palaszczuk alongside partner Adib.Sydney Morning Herald<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice declared a crime scene at an address in Burleigh Heads [on Thursday], April 30, as part of an ongoing investigation,\u201d the Queensland Police Service told this masthead in a statement.<\/p>\n

Adib is a prominent surgeon, specialising in obesity procedures, who has been in a relationship with Palaszczuk since 2021.<\/p>\n

The surgeon established his obesity clinic in Brisbane in 2004, and was nominated as the co-chairman of the Wesley Hospital\u2019s Centre of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery in 2017.<\/p>\n

But Uniting Care, which runs the Wesley Hospital, told this masthead Adib was not currently accredited to perform operations at the hospital.<\/p>\n

At a public event at a Gold Coast library on Thursday night while promoting her autobiography, Palaszczuk was asked about the raid at the home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not aware of any of that, so I can\u2019t comment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

This masthead attempted to contact Adib through his surgical clinic in Brisbane but was told no comment would be provided.<\/p>\n

If you or anyone you know needs support, you can contact the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service on 1800RESPECT<\/a> (1800 737 732).<\/p>\n

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\"JamesJames Hall<\/a> is the News Director at the Brisbane Times. He is the former Queensland correspondent at The Australian Financial Review and has reported for a range of mastheads across the country, specialising on political and finance reporting.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated May 1, 2026 \u2014 2:42pm,first published 1:02pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-641996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}