“As such we will not reveal specifics of the reward only to advise it has been paid in full to a number of claimants.”
Cordingley was found by her father partially buried on Wangetti Beach near Cairns in October 2018, a day after she was reported missing.
The pharmacy worker and animal shelter volunteer had driven to the popular beach for a Sunday afternoon walk with her dog.
Her death shocked the local community, with hand-made posters appearing in shop windows asking for information.
Then-federal assistant minister to Attorney-General Amanda Stoker issued an arrest warrant to Indian authorities for an unnamed suspect in the case in March 2021.
The record reward was offered in 2022 leading to Singh’s New Delhi arrest weeks later before an Indian magistrate ordered his extradition to Australia.
Singh had earlier waived his right to challenge the extradition order, telling AAP in New Delhi: “I want to go back. It is the (Indian) judicial system that has been holding things up.”
“I did not kill the woman,” he said, adding he wanted to “reveal all the details” to an Australian court.
Police arranged for Singh to be flown from Melbourne to Queensland via private air charter and he was charged with murder soon after arriving in Cairns in March 2023.
He was remanded in custody after his matter appeared in Cairns Magistrates Court.
His trial is set to begin in the Supreme Court in Cairns this year.
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