At the heart of the NRL investigation were a series of transactions, totalling $300,000, which went missing from Broncos Leagues Club accounts, triggering a separate internal audit.
Former Brisbane operations chief Andrew Gee, who resigned in May, was being investigated by Broncos Leagues over the six-figure void.
But despite months of forensic financial investigations, NRL auditors could not trace the missing money to the accounts of Broncos players.
Gee refused to assist with the NRL probe and was not compelled to because he had resigned as a Broncos employee.
The 25-year club legend, who quit when The Courier-Mail exposed the cap investigation, has since repaid the money and resigned a director of Broncos Leagues, which is still being investigated by ASIC over the scandal.
?It (the missing funds) was repaid before the end of the last financial year,? confirmed Broncos Leagues club chairman Bruno Cullen.
He would not comment further.
It is unknown where Gee, unemployed at the time, procured the money to repay Broncos Leagues. He did not return calls to The Courier-Mail on Tuesday.
At the time of his resignation, Gee said: ?I have nothing to say ... I have moved on.?
Now that the money has been repaid, the NRL says it has nothing to act on.
Six Broncos players ? Corey Parker, Ben Barba, Corey Oates, Martin Kennedy, Jarrod Wallace and incoming recruit Anthony Milford ? were interviewed by NRL auditors.
Gee was responsible for negotiating and signing off on all their contracts.
Financial searches of player-manager records also failed to uncover cash payments.
Whatever happened to the Leagues Club cash that Gee allegedly used remains a mystery.
The other mystery is how Gee managed to raise $300,000 to pay back the Leagues Club.
?Andrew Gee will go to his grave with that information,? said one source.
