AAP General News (Australia)
08-30-2000
NSW: Carr dismisses Obeid allegations
New South Wales Premier BOB CARR says allegations of impropriety against of any of
his ministers should be referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
His comments follow a Sydney Morning Herald report that Fisheries Minister EDDIE OBEID
has appointed a former ANZ bank manager, who had ultimate responsibility for his business
accounts, to two government boards.
The newspaper reported ALASTAIR J. FOTHERINGHAM was the ANZ state manager of business
banking when the bank wrote off $3.2 million owed by Mr OBEID and companies associated
with him.
The paper says this occurred in 1992 when Mr OBEID was on the backbench.
After becoming Mineral Resources and Fisheries Minister last year, Mr OBEID appointed
Mr FOTHERINGHAM as chairman of the NSW Coal Compensation Board and Advisory Council on
Aquaculture.
Mr OBEID and Mr FOTHERINGHAM both strongly deny any impropriety, saying the appointments
coincided with the bank manager's retirement.
A statement from Mr OBEID says Mr FOTHERINGHAM was appointed because of his professional
abilities and business perspective and other suggestions are absurd and defamatory.
In a separate statement, Mr FOTHERINGHAM says he did not have carriage of the bank's
negotiations with Mr OBEID.
AAP RTV ls/sb/alt/jn
KEYWORD: OBEID (SYDNEY)
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