Natural justice safeguards failed where director ignored repeated notices in export-proceeds adjudication, though penalty was reduced to pre-deposit.

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....Service of notice and opportunity of hearing were treated as adequate where the director knew of the investigation, sought time to respond, then neither replied nor updated the address despite repeated service attempts. No breach of natural justice arose from non-cooperation. Non-realisation of export proceeds triggered a statutory presumption that reasonable recovery steps had not been taken. As the director was in charge during the contravention and did not establish realisation or efforts to obtain information from the Official Liquidator, company liquidation did not remove liability. The penalty was sustained but confined to the amount already deposited, considering the elapsed period and liquidation.....