Parramatta Eels make a payment of $ 500,000 to close the book on the scandal of the salary limit
Parramatta will pay $ 500,000 to resolve a case of the Supreme Court that was ready to revisit the reckless agreements paid to Jarryd Hayne and Anthony Watmough who led to the club salary limit scandal.
The liquidators for BlackCitrus, one of the companies involved in the saga that shaken the eels in 2016, presented a cause in search of $ 1,177,601 for the company’s creditors. The action was scheduled for an audition last month after gorgent to the Supreme Court for four years.
If he had gone to an audition, the details of the payments that went to the former Eels Star Hayne and Watmough through Scorecube – an entirely controlled affiliate of BlackCitrus – would have been listened to in the public court procedures.
In his declaration of defense, the Eels said that the then manager Scott Seward mediated a leader with BlackCitrus without the knowledge of the Council.
“… the actor was at all times material aware of the fact that Hoa was a fiction and that the real purpose of the agreement was to provide payments to the player Anthony Watmough in preventing the rules of the wage limit of the NRL; and … that Hoa was always null and without any legal effect because of its illegal nature and/or against public policy.”
The wage hood scandal was a dark moment for Eels’s fans.Credit: James Brickwood
The defense also stated that the actor did not do the work pursuant to the chiefs and that their invoices do not reflect the services performed at the value.
Sources unauthorized to speak publicly due to confidentiality have reported to this masthead that the Eels have agreed to pay $ 500,000 to resolve the matter, which will be officially aimed at next week.
The development will officially close the book in one of the darkest chapters in the history of Parramatta. The eels were attracted to 12 competition points, fined of $ 1 million, stripped of the title of Auckland Nines 2016 and forced to download the players after being discovered that it has systematically reduced the salary limit. The saga also led to the removal of the Board of Directors and a series of changes in corporate government.
