{"id":909421,"date":"2026-09-29T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909421\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:30:12","slug":"icac-operation-rosny-live-updates-former-strathfield-councillor-sharangan-maheswaran-returns-for-likely-final-day-of-public-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909421\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAC Operation Rosny LIVE updates: Former Strathfield councillor Sharangan Maheswaran returns for likely final day of public hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharangan Maheswaran and Karen Pensabene joked about the surveillance being taken of Matthew Blackmore, even referencing The Police song Every Breath You Take, the ICAC has heard.<\/p>\n<p>In one exchange Maheswaran texted a friend a picture of a pen with the ICAC logo and told his friend \u201cyou need to hand this to Matthew at some point\u201d. His friend then sends Maheswaran a link to a website that sells surveillance devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Strathfield mayor Matthew Blackmore, former councillor Sharangan Maheswaran, and current councillor Karen Pensabene.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ee856e74707fd61e9a3dd1e11fdfabc49a105281a8ecb95dc25a05dff239429c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Former Strathfield mayor Matthew Blackmore, former councillor Sharangan Maheswaran, and current councillor Karen Pensabene.Matthew Absalom-Wong<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should see my spy equipment one day,\u201d Maheswaran texted back.<\/p>\n<p>In another exchange, this time with Pensabene, who tells Maheswaran she\u2019s currently at a cafe meeting with Blackmore.<\/p>\n<p>Maheswaran sends her back a photograph taken of her sitting at the cafe along with a cover of the song Every Breath You Take. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next line of that song, as we all know, is \u2018I\u2019ll be watching you\u2019,\u201d Peggy Dwyer, SC, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharangan Maheswaran and Karen Pensabene joked about the surveillance being taken of Matthew Blackmore, even referencing The Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-909421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}