Parramatta Eels scandal costs official Tanya Gadiel prominent health role
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EXCLUSIVE Nick TabakoffEditor-at-LargeThe Daily Telegraph
PARRAMATTA Eels director Tanya Gadiel late yesterday stepped aside from a prominent Western Sydney board role for NSW Health, as pressure mounts on remaining board members at the club.
NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner told The Telegraph last night that Ms Gadiel had the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District Board because of the Eels scandal.
Ms Skinner said the Board’s chairman, Associate Professor Andrew Keegan, told her late yesterday that he had accepted Ms Gadiel’s offer “to stand aside pending the outcome of the NRL’s investigations into claims about the Parramatta NRL Club board”.
This follows the publication of the transcripts of explosive meeting tapes where Ms Gadiel talked about the “f-word” — alleged “fraud” — in relation to one of the club’s many dodgy third-party deals.
While the “Gang of Five” Eels officials are already suspended, the emergence of details of the NRL’s breach notice on the Eels has ratcheted up the pressure on remaining directors who figured prominently in the tapes, particularly Ms Gadiel, the former state MP for Parramatta, and Andrew Cordwell.
The four remaining Eels directors, Gadiel, Cordwell, Geoff Gerard and Paul Garrard, are due to hold an unscheduled board meeting this morning, which was postponed from yesterday.
