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Parramatta has agreed to wage $500,000 to settee a long-running Supreme Court lawsuit linked to the wage headdress ungraded that rocked the nine successful 2016.
The substance stems from payments made to erstwhile Eels stars Jarryd Hayne and Anthony Watmough, which were channelled done a institution called Scorecube, a subsidiary of Blackcitrus.
Liquidators acting for Blackcitrus launched ineligible enactment seeking $1.17million for the company's creditors, with the lawsuit simmering successful the Supreme Court for 4 years.
It was owed to beryllium heard past month, but the colony brings it to a adjacent without further nationalist scrutiny.
Had the lawsuit gone to a afloat hearing, the courtroom would person aired the details of payments made nether arrangements that allegedly breached the NRL wage cap.
In tribunal documents, Parramatta claimed then-CEO Scott Seward signed a heads of statement with Blackcitrus without the board's approval.
Jarryd Hayne fronts media aft helium was released from situation past twelvemonth erstwhile intersexual battle charges were dropped
Hayne was inactive tied to the Eels due to the fact that of a long-running tribunal lawsuit implicit the 2016 wage headdress scandal
The club's defence stated: '... The plaintiff was astatine each worldly times alert that the HOA was a sham and that the existent intent of the statement was to supply payments to subordinate Anthony Watmough successful avoidance of the NRL Salary Cap Rules; and … that the HOA was astatine each times void and of nary ineligible effect by crushed of its amerciable quality and/or arsenic against nationalist policy.'
The Eels besides argued that Blackcitrus failed to present the services outlined successful the statement and issued invoices that did not bespeak value.
Sources adjacent to the lawsuit confirmed the nine agreed to the $500,000 payout to debar a protracted ineligible battle.
The determination marks the extremity of a acheronian section successful Parramatta's past and comes arsenic the nine struggles done a turbulent 2025 season.
The 2016 ungraded led to dense sanctions, including a $1million fine, a 12-point deduction, and the nonaccomplishment of the Auckland Nines title.
Several players were offloaded, and the full committee was removed amid sweeping governance changes.
The existent administration, keen to debar further nationalist embarrassment, chose colony implicit litigation.
This determination besides shields the nine from further distractions arsenic caller manager Jason Ryles hunts his archetypal win.
The Eels chose to wage retired liquidators alternatively of engaging successful much litigation implicit the Hayne payments that stemmed from the wage headdress scandal
Parramatta sits astatine the bottommost of the ladder aft starting the play 0-4, with cardinal subordinate Mitchell Moses sidelined and Dylan Brown confirming a determination to Newcastle.
The ineligible saga astir Hayne and Watmough has hovered implicit the nine similar a tempest unreality for astir a decade.
Hayne, erstwhile the look of the Eels, has faced his ain bid of tribunal battles unrelated to the wage headdress issue.
In 2018, Hayne was charged with aggravated intersexual battle pursuing an incidental successful Newcastle.
A lengthy ineligible process followed, resulting successful aggregate trials, convictions, appeals, and ultimately, his merchandise successful 2024.
On June 25, 2024, prosecutors dropped the charges, ending the drawn-out ineligible drama.
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