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Obeid Lobbied Minister Over Family Company Page 1 Of2 Obeid lobbied minister over family company Page 1 of2 Obeid lobbied minister over family company Reot: '"ter !Linton Besser, Kate McClymont Print Repnnts & permssrO!ls 'Eddre OL1erd asked rne to see represerY.Gil!\'E'S of 111e ccn>pany" r·!lrch&el Ct)Sta Photo )ames A,'c:oc.~ LABOR powerbroker Eddie Obeid arranged private meetings with the former state treasurer Michael Costa to advance the business interests of a health company secretly owned by his family. Direct Health Solutions, which secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts, operates a sick-leave system designed to reduce absenteeism. ~Mr Obeid denied to an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry this week that he lobbied a minister to further his family's financial interests ·concerning a $200 million development at Lake Cathie and restaurants at Circular Quay. :Denials Eddie Obc1d P/Joro Dean Sewef,' 'sut a Herald investigation has established that Mr Obeid did promote DHS to the then finance minister Mr Costa. "Eddie Obeid asked me to see representatives of the company," Mr Costa confirmed, adding that Mr Obeid failed to declare his family's interest in the venture. "He told me [DHS] had a good operational system that may be useful for the NSW context." 'Mr Obeid told Fairfax Media: "I have got nothing to do with it." He also said he had no recollection of the Costa meeting When pressed about his family's involvement, Mr Obeid said: "That is up to them. Speak to them." But the father of nine declined to nominate which 'family member to contact, saying: "I have got a number of people that work in the family business." For several years DHS operated from the offices of the Obeids' business headquarters at Birkenhead Point. http://www.smh.eom.au/nsw/obeid-lobbied-minister-over-family-company-201211 09... 30/10/2013 Obeid lobbied minister over family company Page 2 of2 A director until recently was Rocco Triulcio, who featured at this week's ICAC inquiry into a Honda CRV which the Obeids arranged for the former jroads minister Eric Roozendaal at a $10,000 discount. Mr Triulcio will give more evidence after Monday when ICAC opens its next inquiry. The Triulcios and the Obeids have done millions of dollars worth of business together during the past 20 years. ''The way we usually see it is their problem is our problem and our problem is their problem, and that's the way we treat each other," Mr Obeid's son Paul told ICAC. On Thursday, the managing director of DHS, Paul Dundon, told Fairfax Media he had never met the Obeids. But on Friday he made a dramatic reversal, conceding he met Paul Obeidat the family's Birkenhead Point headquarters to set up the company. !"I had a few meetings with Paul Obeid, pitching the business to him and Rocco [Triulcio]," he said. Asked what Paul Obeid said at the meeting, Mr 'Dundon said: "He would have said he had some connections. It was a bit smoke and mirrors." But pressed, Mr Dundon accepted he knew at the time that Paul's father was Eddie Obeid. DHS's original director was Paul Maroon, who runs another Obeid front company responsible for three waterfront cafes at Circular Quay. '"They are using my name because they don't want to use the Obeid name," Mr Maroon previously told an associate regarding DHS. !In 2005, when DHS pitched its services to Mr Costa, its sole shareholder was Equitexx Pty Ltd. Court documents show Equitexx was the Obeids' ~rustee company which distributed tens of millions of dollars in profits hidden in the Obeid family trusts. Equitexx transferred its shareholding in DHS to ~he Triulcios in late September 2005. Despite two meetings with Mr Costa, the DHS pitch was unsuccessful. In 2006 Treasury finally recommended that DHS be told the department "would not be a suitable agency to trial your services''. But Mr Costa's aide, Kelli Field, a former policy adviser to Mr Obeid and the wife of the former Labor senator Mark Arbib, wrote in the margin of the 'draft Treasury rejection letter: "Noted. Letter not to be sent. K Field." !Between 2005 and 2008, DHS was paid $150,000 by the Education Department, $30,000 for a 15-day consultancy to the NSW Police, and almost :$34,000 by Corrective Services. ~he company also received $170,000 from Ryde Council without going to tender. po you know more? [email protected] Cu]T(:n\ jobs Research und Re\"t:nuc /1, $99,070' $109,355 Clayton, VIC 3168 Monash University Vie\\" .lob Scn1n1· .-\cn1untan1 1O!'C Northern Suburbs, .. Rm;<:i.-1,. (~rmm Email ariicle Pnnt Repnnis & perll11S510ns ainder incorporated, !.';l\"C http://www.smh.eom.au/nsw/obeid-lobbied-minister-over-family -company-20 121109,. 3 0/1 0/2013 .
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