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Police have charged prominent Brisbane surgeon Vahid Reza Adib – the partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk – with rape.

Adib, a bariatric surgeon who runs an obesity clinic at the private Wesley hospital in Brisbane’s western suburbs, attended the Southport Police Station on the Gold Coast voluntarily on Friday.

He was charged with three counts of rape, two counts of depravation of liberty and one count of sexual assault.

Adib was granted police bail and will face court at a later date. He made no comment outside the police station.

Television cameras captured footage of police searching Adib’s Burleigh Heads apartment on Thursday. The Queensland Police Service would not comment about the investigation at the time.

Adib’s website says he has performed more than 20,000 operations and that he has expertise in laparoscopic surgeries and obesity management. He has worked in Brisbane since he was a surgical trainee in the mid 1990s.

But it was his relationship with Palaszczuk, which began six years into her tenure as premier, and at the height of her popularity, that placed him in the public eye.

Palaszczuk had been in the middle of a promotional tour for her memoir. She cancelled several media interviews on Thursday and Friday, but attended a “meet the author” session at a Gold Coast library on Tuesday evening.

She said during the event she was “not aware” of any investigation. She did not respond to journalists’ questions outside the event.