Hello and welcome to another day of our live coverage as Operation Rosny enters the seventh week of public hearings.
I’m state political reporter Jessica McSweeney, and I’ll be bringing you all the latest updates as the ICAC returns to an earlier witness, Jeremy Greenwood, for more questioning.
Before the hearing begins at 10am, let’s take a quick look at what we covered last Friday:
- Charles Perrottet denied suggestions from Peggy Dwyer, SC, that he repeatedly gave false evidence under oath and encourage his wife Anita to do the same.
- Dwyer suggested that Charles and Anita Perrottet “outsmarted” themselves by not getting their stories straight, after the couple gave conflicting evidence about payments received by Anita’s company, Macquarie Consulting. Charles Perrottet denied this, and said he may not have told his wife about the arrangement he had with Beckington, that Macquarie Consulting be paid for advice he gave.
- Phone tap recordings played to the ICAC showed Jean Nassif bragging about influence he believed he had in the state government, including that Dominic Perrottet was his “boy”, at the same time Charles Perrottet was giving him updates about the success of the right faction of the Liberal Party. Perrottet denied ever offering political outcomes in exchange for payments.
- The ICAC heard that Charles Perrottet was aware that Sharangan Maheswaran was leaking damaging stories about David Chandler to a journalist, and said, “great, we are close” when told an article was being published.
- Perrottet said he was lying when he told Nassif he was “working on it” after the developer asked for his help to get the building commissioner off his back.