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Re: Mickey Arthur sacked
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2013, 10:55:26 AM »

darren is excellent at identifying talent and bringing them thru. Good news for australia.

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Re: Mickey Arthur sacked
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2013, 11:49:28 AM »

Sutherland:

But when it comes to an ATO public can of worms, Carlton as serial cap
 cheats are the champions with illegal payments to players placing the
 club in so much turmoil that it ultimately saw John Elliott dumped as
 club president in 2002
. In December 2002, the ATO revealed it was
 investigating possible tax breaches after the AFL had fined the club
 $930,000 for its latest cap cheating, which also attracted the
 attention of corporate watchdog, the Australian Securities and
 Investments Commission. While ASIC was to weigh up breach of accounting
 standards or the Corporations Law, the ATO would check out failure to
 pay fringe benefits and other taxes. The club would also be asked to
 respond to whether any players understated income from either match
 payments or other sources, and under-paid tax.

But the ATO was already previously investigating under the table payments made by
 one-time CEO Ian Collins to players in the early 90’s, assisted it
 seems back then by another Carlton employee James Sutherland, now
 Cricket Australia CEO. Among matters under ATO investigation was one
 player being paid a total of $70,000 outside the cap in a sham deal to
 a private company, with Collins also alleged to have instigated in a
 similar fashion, payments of some $150,000 spread over three years to
 former Blues star and two-time Brownlow Medalist, Greg Williams.

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Blues star paid in secret
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 CARLTON secretly channelled $200,000 to star centreman Greg Williams through a private construction company to cheat the AFL salary cap.

 The payments were disguised by then Blues chiefs Ian Collins and James Sutherland as ground maintenance work. Yet no work was ever done.

 It has been revealed that Collins, chief executive of Telstra Dome, was central to the affair.

 James Sutherland, Australian Cricket Board chief executive, signed or co-signed with Collins many of the cheques and payment requisitions central to the sham. The company used to hide the payments, Amigo Constructions Pty Ltd, also had Sports Minister Justin Madden as a director. Amigo was wound up voluntarily last September.

 According to documents seen by the Herald Sun, the payments to Williams were made in the financial years of 1993, 1994 and 1995.

 The documents name Collins, then the Blues' executive director, and Sutherland, then the club's finance manager.

 Collins has recently returned to Carlton after deposing John Elliott as president.

 Documents say Collins had an "active and material involvement" in the payments, and "(mis)representation of those payments in the records of Carlton".

 Cheques made out to Amigo for amounts of $25,000, and internal documents requesting payments to Amigo bear Sutherland's signature, the documents say.

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Re: Mickey Arthur sacked
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2013, 02:05:49 AM »

Sutherland is as culpable as anyone in this. If Arthur went, why not Howard or Inverarity? Because hiring Howard was Sutherland's idea, and sacking him would be admitting he got it wrong, while Inverarity is mates with the CA chairman, Wally Edwards. They aren't going anywhere.
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