The goods include cigarettes, liquor and vehicles with the identity of the informant to be kept confidential.

Federal Court judge Nallini Pathmanathan opposed their appeal, saying the country needed to collect tax.

The tax evasion case stemmed from accusations by the state revenue agency that Rappler had omitted from its tax returns the proceeds of a 2015 sale of depositary receipts to foreign investors.

In the indictment, the Trump Organization and Weisselberg are accused of having defrauded tax authorities over 15 years by awarding 'off-the-books' benefits to company executives.

Trump was ordered to pay US$10,000 a day for as long as he refused to provide accounting and tax documents as part of a civil investigation against the Trump Organization family business.

Mazars informed the Trump Organization in a letter last Wednesday that it would no longer work for the company, which is being probed by New York prosecutors for alleged fraud.

Investigations have to do with lucrative contracts from a foreign government, the profits of which were never declared by the businessman.

Journalism nonprofit ProPublica says the billionaires did nothing illegal in their tax declarations, but employed tax-avoidance strategies 'beyond the reach of ordinary people'.

Her trial will begin after the High Court has heard her defence on the corruption case in relation to a solar hybrid project for rural schools in Sarawak.

The 75-year-old has been held at a prison near Barcelona since he was arrested in the Spanish city in October just as he was about to board a flight to Istanbul.