PoliticsICAC hears Liberal operative was offered $1,000 to push ‘grubby rumour’ about minister

Australia’s anti-corruption commission heard that Sharangan Maheswaran offered Liberal operative Jeremy Greenwood $1,000 to place media reports about an unsubstantiated affair and Covid-19 breach allegation involving former New South Wales minister David Elliott. Maheswaran called it “not a serious offer”; witnesses have accepted there was no evidence for the claims.

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