He has previously stood as a Palmer United Party candidate, worked for the party, and now works for Mr Palmer on his legal cases.He told the Federal Court in Brisbane last Monday that he did not know the current whereabouts of Mr Mensink but thought he was still in Bulgaria.On October 1, a photograph of Mr Sokolov — who goes by the name Georgi Sokolov in Bulgaria — was posted on Facebook, by a man named Peter Mitchev.The photograph was tagged as having being taken in Sofia, Bulgaria, on October 1.“With dear guest from Australia brother-in-law Georgi Sokolov,’’ Mr Mitchev wrote, in a photograph that Mr Sokolov shared on his own page. This article states that “a person who unlawfully obstructs a government body … shall be punished by a deprivation of liberty of up to three years.’’ Their interest in Mr Palmer is whether he acted as a shadow director, controlling the company from behind the scenes, while his nephew was the sole director.Queensland Nickel also pumped more than $21 million into Mr Palmer’s political party before it collapsed under debts of more than $215 million.Mr Palmer has family in Bulgaria, and he has been paying his nephew — who News Corp found in Sofia in February — $4000 a week. The liquidators refused to comment.News Corp understands Mr Mensink, 50, has become tired of living in the Eastern European country, and being away from his family in Australia, including his son Ryan Mensink, and his daughter Maddie Brown, a yoga teacher who is returning from London to Australia on November 1.This is thought to be one of the reasons for Mr Palmer’s bizarre press statement earlier this month that Mr Mensink had been appointed “European director’’ of his project Titanic II, an on-off plan to build a replica of the ill-fated Titanic cruise licence.Mr Palmer had claimed Mr Mensink would run the project out of its London office but two days later his spokesman admitted there was no office. News Corp can reveal a legal path has been identified for getting the runaway nephew of Clive Palmer back to Australia from Europe, where he fled two years ago following the collapse of Mr Palmer’s company Queensland Nickel.We can also reveal Mr Mensink, who has been hiding out in Bulgaria in Eastern Europe for most of his time on the run, has left Bulgaria — at least temporarily — crossing the border into neighbouring Macedonia earlier this month with two younger local men.He has avoided two Federal Court arrest warrants in Australia after failing to appear in court for questioning on the collapse of the company, which left 800 people out of work.However, in recent weeks authorities have upped the pressure on Mr Mensink with the corporate watchdog ASIC now considering issuing a summons which would compel him to return for questioning. You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out *A second section of the Act, Section 63, states that a person “must not intentionally and recklessly fail to comply with a requirement made under Section 19.’’*If ASIC issues a Section 19 summons against Clive Mensink, he is required to show up in Australia for questioning. Mr Palmer then said it would be run out of Paris.After two years of public examination by the special purpose liquidators, there have been a number of developments in recent weeks which have increased pressure on Mr Mensink and Mr Palmer. *Evidence from George Sokolov, Mr Palmer’s brother-in-law, who told the court that since April 2017, Mr Palmer, and Mr Mensink’s lawyer Sam Iskander, had been able to communicate through him to Mr Mensink. *If he doesn’t show up, he will have committed an offence which carries a maximum jail term of two years. Being “required’’ means they have no choice — they must comply, or break the law. This evidence contradicted earlier evidence from numerous witnesses that Mr Mensink could not be contacted. Clive Palmer defends paying his nephew Clive Mensink $4000 a week News Corp visited Mensink’s home in an up-market suburb just outside the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia last week. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. *Authorities are also interested in Mr Palmer’s comments to the media last week that he speaks to Mr Mensink “every day.’’ He has previously said, including on July 21 last year outside the Federal Court: “I haven’t had any contact with him.’’Attorney-General Christian Porter told News Corp that: “As a matter of longstanding practice, the Australian Government does not disclose whether it has made, or intends to make, an extradition request to a foreign country.“Extradition is also only available in circumstances where a person is wanted to face criminal charges or to serve a sentence in relation to a criminal offence.“Without talking to any specific proceedings, I would say unequivocally that as a matter of principle Mr Mensink should return to Australia of his own volition to face up to his responsibilities and the people of Queensland.’’Former Queensland Nickel worker Sam Larkin said it would be ‘’hugely important’’ to her and other ex employees to see Mr Mensink brought back for questioning.“We’ve been waiting for justice and fairness,” she said.“We are waiting with bated breath for him to be dragged to court.“The day he is in court, I will get on a plane to be there.“If he had any respect at all for our laws and legal system, he would have shown up when first called and given evidence.”Runaway businessman Clive Mensink has left Bulgaria, travelling with two young men across the border into neighbouring Macedonia.News Corp has determined that Mensink, 50, travelled in a Mercedes car across the border atGyueshevo, a tiny village in western Bulgaria, at 2.31pm on Tuesday, October 9.He was travelling with two Bulgarian men, aged 36 and 30, and by late last week, had not returned to Bulgaria, which has been his home for most of the last two years after he fled Australia following the collapse of Queensland Nickel in 2016.He left the country a week before his uncle, Clive Palmer, announced he had appointed his nephew to be “European director’’ of his Titanic II project, based in London.