The NSW Police and the Crime Commission have undertaken to examine alleged connections between organised crime figures and the Coronation Property group, which employed former National Party leader John Barilaro earlier this year.
Despite the job not being advertised, Barilaro was hired as Coronation’s executive director from February until June when he resigned to take his controversial and now-abandoned New York trade role. Younes and Zakaria have previously been banned from associating with Rafat Alameddine, the reputed head of the crime family.
“Mr Bodor, what about the Crime Commission? Is there anything there that’s on your radar?” asked Searle. Bodor replied, “I don’t want to talk about operational matters … But the names are all familiar to me. Indeed, there’s even a former client of mine featured in it.”