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The 83-year-old billionaire corporate assailant initially faced six charges after his arrest at Sydney International Airport on December 17 last year.
Today, New South Wales court staff confirmed to The New Zealand Herald that Brierley faced additional charges.
He is to appear again in Sydney Downing Center Local Court in December.
Brierley’s attorney previously indicated that he will defend the charges, but no pleas of innocence have yet been formally presented.
Brierley, who is the president or director of numerous companies in Australia and New Zealand, was arrested as he was about to board a plane to Fiji.
After being detained by Australian Border Force officers, his carry-on luggage was seized.
Police allege they found more than 200,000 images and 500 videos on Brierley’s laptop and electronic storage devices that featured child abuse material.
Court documents said the material allegedly showed “girls between the ages of two and 15 in sexually suggestive poses.”
The arrest followed a five-month police investigation, allegedly sparked by an anonymous phone call last August.
The businessman is currently out on bail and his conditions stipulate that he lives in his mansion at Point Piper in Sydney.
Brierley, knighted in 1988, was a giant on the New Zealand corporate scene during the 1970s and 1980s, leading a series of daring corporate raids and takeovers.
