A Griffith University student accused of using software to steal staff and student logins in 2013 allegedly left the country using a different identity after police raided his house, New Zealand court documents allege.

A man wanted over a hack on a Queensland university in 2013, Adam Alachi, left Australia with multiple aliases before leaving the country, according to New Zealand court documents. The Australian has been accused of stealing login details from Griffith University staff and students in 2013, but he was able to use passports in three separate names between 2013 and 2016.

According to the New Zealand court documents, Adam Alachi allegedly flew from Australia to New Zealand using a NZ passport less than a month after police raided his home. The name on the passport at that time was allegedly Adam Elache. In 2017, it is alleged that he used a Canadian driver's license in the name Adem Oshnaveh to get a New Zealand license.

It is unclear why he had a Canadian license. Mr Alachi was arrested in 2016 under the name Adem Onshaveh, but his lawyer argued it was a case of mistaken identity, and his client claimed he never lived in New Zealand. The arresting officer told the court that Mr Alachi said his name was Adam Isaac and did not provide a license.

According to documents from an unrelated case in Australia, Mr Alachi was born Adam Isaac in Canberra in 1992. In Auckland District Court, Adam Alachi's lawyer argued it was a "case of mistaken identity", and his client had never lived in New Zealand. Mr Alachi claimed the arresting officer was "racially vilifying" him.

The documents also allege that Mr Alachi had been in and out of the country — under different names — for most of his life. He first traveled to New Zealand as a three-year-old in 1995 on his Australian passport in the name Adam Isaac, but just five years later, an application was made using a Lebanese passport in the name Adam Adnan Elache.

A New Zealand citizenship application was made for Adam Elache two years later, and he flew to Brisbane in 2007 under that name. It is alleged that the next time he used the passport was to re-enter New Zealand in November 2013, less than a month after Queensland police searched his home.

When he next returned to New Zealand, it is alleged that Mr Alachi used an Australian passport in the name Adam Isaac, just months before his arrest. The documents also state that he allegedly last used that passport to fly to Australia in 2016, when there was an active warrant for his arrest over the Griffith University hack.

But despite the allegations and court documents, it appears that no formal investigation has been conducted into Mr Alachi's activities. Queensland police have not commented on whether they were aware of Mr Alachi being found in New Zealand with multiple passports, and the Australian Border Force (ABF) declined to comment before deadline.

The ABC understands that there has been no AFP investigation into Mr Alachi, and the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions said they had not prosecuted the individual involved. Meanwhile, Mr Alachi's younger brother Hussein I'lachi was arrested in 2023 for the hack.

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