The spouse of a former Liberal state govt member appeared nervous and evasive whereas denying figuring out the place he was when a course of server got here searching for him to seem at a NSW parliamentary inquiry, a letter alleges.
The letter is considered one of two launched on Wednesday detailing how personal servers traveled greater than 1900 kilometers of their seek for Christian Ellis, his mom Hills Shire councilor Virginia Ellis and Jean-Claude Perrottet, the youthful brother of NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet.
The trio went to floor two weeks in the past after requests to seem earlier than the inquiry into improper affect on a Sydney council.
The probe was launched after Liberal MP Ray Williams used parliamentary privilege to allege a number of senior occasion members had been paid to put in councilors onto the Hills Shire Council to be pleasant to developer Jean Nassif.
Mr Perrottet has dismissed the inquiry as a Labor-led political hit job weeks out from the state election.
In a letter to the inquiry, course of servers Tim Tierney and Associates stated they spoke to Mr Ellis’s spouse at a household farm in southern NSW on Saturday.
The agent requested her if Mr. Ellis was house, to which she replied, “No, his (sic) not right here.”
“I do not know his actions. I do not know the place he’s. I’m sorry however I can not make it easier to,” the spouse stated, in response to the letter.
The agent “famous the feminine individual to seem nervous and evasive within the solutions in the direction of the agent”, the letter stated.
On one other event, an agent attended a homestead linked to the Ellises at night time and famous a number of parked automobiles, the lights on and listening to voices.
However the voices stopped after the agent knocked on the door.
“Regardless of door-knocking for plenty of minutes, no individual would reply the door,” the letter stated.
Brokers additionally attended a number of motels, an RSL membership and different properties apparently linked to the Ellises.
One other course of server advised the inquiry it had made six makes an attempt in current days to search out the trio.
In a single try to search out Jean-Claude Perrottet, three males confirmed he labored at a selected firm however they hadn’t seen him currently.
One other male worker then advised the agent Jean-Claude was on depart.
Ms Ellis additionally failed to seem on the Hills council month-to-month assembly on Tuesday night time.
Higher home Labor MP and committee member John Graham has advised AAP the committee hoped the trio would resolve to report back to the inquiry.
“We’re calling on them to co-operate. We’re calling on the general public to report their whereabouts,” Mr Graham stated on Tuesday.
The premier declined to reply questions on Tuesday about his youthful brother’s whereabouts, having final week advised reporters to depart his household out of his political affairs.
When requested why Jean-Claude had didn’t reply the inquiry’s requests, the premier stated “that is a matter for him.”
One other of the premier’s brothers, Charles Perrottet, was additionally referred to as to offer proof however declined in a defiant letter on Monday.
“I can’t be collaborating in your Labor-Greens circus,” Charles wrote in a letter seen by the Each day Telegraph.
As a resident of Victoria, Charles can’t be summoned to seem earlier than a NSW parliamentary inquiry.
