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‘A thousand bucks for smear story’: Cash offered for negative Elliott coverage

ICAC heard Maheswaran offered $1,000 to get a damaging COVID breach story published about David Elliott, while investigators examined surveillance and political motives.

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Former Labor Strathfield councillor Sharangan Maheswaran personally paid an investigator to trail the then police minister.

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‘A thousand bucks for smear story’: Cash offered for negative Elliott coverage

Former Labor Strathfield councillor Sharangan Maheswaran personally paid an investigator to trail the then-police minister.

·North Sydney, Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald broke the news in North Sydney, Australia on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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