Exclusive: Leaked emails show Stuart Robert actively seeking to help Synergy360 win work, but a key question remains – why was he so keen for the company to succeed?
that would install his close friend, Scott Morrison, as prime minister.
The email cache also makes clear that Robert – as both a backbencher and a minister – would, on multiple occasions, assist Synergy 360 as it attempted to secure new corporate clients and help them win government contracts.quit parliament Other examples raise further questions about whether Robert helped Milo gain business. The Liberal MP used his personal email account, for instance, to encourage Milo to contact the Singaporean High Commissioner in Australia, to whom Robert had spoken about Singapore’s $2 billion investment in Shoalwater Bay defence facilities in Queensland.
A review by former senior public servant Ian Watt, commissioned by the agencies that report to Government Services Minister Bill Shorten,about the conflict of interest management processes related to several of the contracts Synergy helped its clients win. But Shorten also queried whether Robert had used his status as a public official in the expectation of a later financial reward, even if it was never paid. The evidence of Margerison of how he intended to distribute his Synergy 360 profits is unclear but leaves this open as a possibility.
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