There seems to be some creative accounting allied to a couple of misconceptions here. My guess is that the money from the case was paid either in part or entirely into the wrong fund. Rather than just declare an error, someone has decided to siphon the excess back into the admin fun, in a way that keeps levies down but doesn’t involve repaying the money raised to fight the case in the first place. I may be wrong but I think there is nothing sinister happening here, just a little bit odd.