A former AFL player has been granted bail after being charged over an elaborate kidnapping plot which allegedly also involved a media advisor to Clive Palmer and a former detective.
Former Sydney Swans player Tony Smith was granted bail in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday after pledging a $250,000 surety.
Under bail conditions Smith, who lives in Bali, is allowed to return to Indonesia but must advise the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions of all overseas travel.
Smith, along with media adviser Andrew Crook and former detective Mick Featherstone, is accused of trying to persuade a National Australia Bank executive to admit to committing perjury during a Supreme Court civil lawsuit.
Smith tried to sue NAB over $68 million he lost in a building project and shares in failed mortgage broker MFS, but the case was dismissed in 2012.
The bank employee was allegedly lured to an Indonesian island with the false promise of a job interview, supposedly for a high-paid global finance officer position with Clive Palmer.
Police allege that when the NAB worker refused to say during the interview that he'd lied to the court, he was "detained" by two Indonesian nationals dressed in security uniforms and further threatened.
Smith, 48, has been charged with one count each of retaliation of a witness, attempting to pervert the course of justice and attempted fraud.
Crook, 48, and Featherstone, 51, were arrested and granted bail last month with conditions including that they surrender their passports and not go within 100 metres of the NAB branches at Southport on the Gold Coast.
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