She said she provided verbal advice to Beckington, run by Christian Ellis and Jeremy Greenwood, and JPG Advisory, run by Greenwood. Perrottet could only recall one client from her work for Beckington, for which she was paid as much as $333,500, saying the advice she gave included \u201ccreating websites\u201d.<\/p>\n
The inquiry heard that for a single quarter in January 2022, she was paid almost $255,000 by JPG Advisory for verbal advice alone.<\/p>\n
Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n As part of its inquiry into corruption into people associated with the NSW Liberals, Icac is investigating whether between 2020 and 2023, Ellis, Greenwood and Charles Perrottet took prohibited political donations from fugitive property developer Jean Nassif and his company Toplace, including for outcomes sought by Nassif.<\/p>\n The men allegedly anticipated receiving $2m to be distributed evenly between them.<\/p>\n On the inquiry\u2019s first day, counsel assisting, Dr Peggy Dwyer SC, said evidence would suggest that Anita Perrottet was a \u201cconduit\u201d for payments totalling $661,000, equalling her husband\u2019s alleged share of the funds.<\/p>\n At one point on Wednesday afternoon, asking about 2023 changes made by Charles to an invoice he created in 2022, Dwyer said: \u201cMrs Perrottet, can I suggest to you, you have been put in an impossible situation because you are being asked to lie under oath to cover for your husband?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI reject that. I\u2019m not lying,\u201d said Anita Perrottet, who asked to swear an oath on the Bible at the start of her evidence. She said any invoices made or changed by her husband would have been at her instruction.<\/p>\n The commission heard that Anita Perrottet, who worked in communications in the financial sector and subsequently ran an alcohol delivery company, Deliver Me Drinks, became the sole director and shareholder of Macquarie Consulting when it was set up in August 2020.<\/p>\n Asked about a $10,000 a monthly retainer she was paid by Beckington, she said she worked 15 to 20 hours a week under a \u201cflexible arrangement\u201d, for which there was no written proposal.<\/p>\n She could only recall one client from her time at Beckington, Greyhound Racing NSW. Anita Perrottet, who said marketing was \u201cmy background, so I have a good understanding\u201d, said Greenwood would brief her, and she may have read \u201cmedia articles\u201d about the industry, but had never been to a greyhound race at the time.<\/p>\n Dwyer asked, \u201cWhy on earth would [Greenwood] need you then for strategic and marketing advice if he was giving you all the information?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe would tell me the issues,\u201d said Anita Perrottet. \u201cAnd I would come back to him with advice on strategies or marketing opportunities for them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI vaguely remember proposing creating websites and stuff specifically to educate people on how to properly humanely treat [dogs],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The commission heard on Wednesday afternoon that she was paid in three lump sums after the first 12 months, following an invoice of $150,000 sent by her husband, including a $30,000 finder\u2019s fee. The payments added up to $170,500, being more than the amount invoiced.<\/p>\n Asked about a message from Charles Perrottet to Christian Ellis in July 2021 in which he wrote \u201cjust sent you back the updated invoices\u201d, she said that Charles would have done so at her request. She said that she did not know anything about a significant amount of money paid to Beckington by Toplace on the same day.<\/p>\n Dwyer suggested that the \u201ctrue situation\u201d was that the invoices were being drawn up \u201cjust to make up a number that was coming in for your husband Charles\u201d.<\/p>\n
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