The former Coalition minister denies he influenced government contracts, declaring in parliament he had ‘zero involvement’
several meetings between Robert and Synergy 360, a firm whose shareholders are his close friends, the consultant David Milo and political fundraiser John Margerison.
“Since last week, I have ascertained the following: four contracts were issued to Infosys to a total value of $274m to upgrade payments software in human services, called the ECE project. It’s still going.”2 October 2018: the ECE tender opened – three companies including Infosys were shortlisted.26 June 2019: leaked emails reveal the minister met Infosys and his good friend Milo, a paid consultant to Infosys, in Sydney.
1 February 2020: the minister was guest speaker at an Infosys conference at Melbourne Park on the afternoon of the Australian Open tennis finals.Shorten told parliament on Thursday: “At the same time, wheels start to come off the project. It has to be overhauled and one of the unsuccessful tenderers is called in to resuscitate the project.”
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