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Social doyenne and heiress Ros Oatley has told a Sydney court that a businesswoman accused of defrauding the National Australia Bank of millions of dollars asked to use her Mosman home for a 40th birthday soiree.
Oatley, daughter of the late Hamilton Island owner and billionaire Bob Oatley, gave evidence in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Monday that she met the accused, Helen Rosamond, in about 2013 at The Spit in Mosman.
Heiress Ros Oatley.
“I met Helen when I had a boat at The Spit and they [the Rosamonds] had a boat adjacent to mine,” Oatley said.
“They used to help me … with the ropes when we used to come in. We formed a friendship. Socially she became a friend of mine and also through that she met a lot of my friends.”
Rosamond, 47, is standing trial in the NSW District Court on charges relating to her alleged role in defrauding NAB of $15 million. She has pleaded not guilty to 60 counts of giving a corrupt benefit and 32 counts of dishonestly obtaining, or attempting to dishonestly obtain, a financial advantage by deception.
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The Crown alleges Rosamond sent falsified and inflated invoices from her event management company Human Group to NAB between 2013 and 2017 and paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Rosemary Rogers, chief of staff in the office of the bank’s then-chief executive, to ensure they were paid.
The court has previously heard allegations Rosamond paid for luxury travel, accommodation, and a vehicle for Rogers, in return for Rogers approving inflated invoices that incorrectly attributed Rosamond’s personal expenses to NAB, including $228,747 for an interior designer to furnish her Potts Point home.
Asked when she had last seen Rosamond, Oatley told the court that she “hadn’t seen Helen for quite some time because I chose not to” but had seen her in about 2016 at a good friend’s 60th birthday party in Tasmania. It was “quite a good party”, Oatley added.
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