Crocodile Dundee actor chases missing offshore millions

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Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan is embroiled in a legal battle to track down his millions which were stashed in a Swiss bank account by his former tax adviser.

Hogan (pictured) is accusing his once-trusted adviser of absconding with $34m he helped Hogan hide in offshore tax havens, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). There is already an international warrant out for Philip Egglishaw, the man known as the ''bowler hat Englishman'', who is the alleged mastermind behind Australia's biggest tax evasion scheme. But now the international fugitive has the Australian actor on his tail, with Hogan's advisers taking legal action in the US alleging Egglishaw, who set up elaborate corporate structures in tax ha...

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