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| Treasurer Fails to Disclose Lotteries Complaints |
| Friday, 23 April 2010 | ||||||
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“No complaint has been made by any of the unsuccessful bidders about the Lotteries sale process,” Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, NSW Parliament 21/4/10 “Concerns concerning offer based on retention of unclaimed prizes,” subject of letter from unsuccessful bidder to Treasury 17/3/10 Treasurer Eric Roozendaal explicitly told Parliament there were no complaints about the Lotteries sale process when a serious complaint had been received, Shadow Treasurer Mike Baird said today. The legal representatives for an unsuccessful bidder wrote to NSW Treasury, the Government’s lawyers and its probity adviser on 17 March to complain it was told several times it could not bid for the unclaimed prizes. “This is a major transaction for the State of NSW and the responsibility of ensuring a fair and transparent process on behalf of taxpayers rests only with the Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal,” Mr Baird said. “It is clear that serious questions about this transaction remain, yet Treasurer Roozendaal is just playing semantics,” he said. “A letter containing serious complaints from an unsuccessful bidder was sent to all the advisers in the transaction, including to Treasury and the State Labor Government’s probity adviser. “How can we trust anything Eric Roozendaal has said in relation to this transaction given he told Parliament this week no complaints were received? “We are calling on the Treasurer today to state if he received this letter and what was his personal response. “If the Treasurer has nothing to hide then he should agree to our request for the release of all documents in relation to this transaction. “Not only has Eric Roozendaal bungled another transaction potentially leaving taxpayers dudded tens of millions of dollars – he has misled Parliament,” Mr Baird said. MEDIA: Lisa Harrington – 0406 726 880 Read the Sydney Morning Herald's article on the issue
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Eric Roozendaal is a pathalogical liar. When Roozendaal said the Spit Bridge was due for an upgrade and he was pushing ahead to have the funding made ready. HE LIED, When he said he would dilligently attend to managing the state's finances, HE LIED AGAIN The Lotteries lies are consistent with this man's pronouncements, he is totally unbelievable and the sooner we get rid this man who has a criminal disregard for the states voters, the better of we will all be. Many robbers take a few tens of dollars, other robbers manage to steal hundreds and some thousands. Eric and Kevin have finessed the way they take from the states taxpayers to the tune of millions and hundreds of millions, they should both be in jail with all the rest of the robbers. |
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