Heiress Ros Oatley let alleged NAB fraudster use her Mosman residence, court docket advised

Social doyenne and heiress Ros Oatley has advised a Sydney court docket {that a} businesswoman accused of defrauding the Nationwide Australia Financial institution of tens of millions of {dollars} requested to make use of her Mosman residence for a fortieth birthday soiree.

Oatley, daughter of the late Hamilton Island proprietor and billionaire Bob Oatley, gave proof in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court docket on Monday that she met the accused, Helen Rosamond, in about 2013 at The Spit in Mosman.

“I met Helen once I had a ship at The Spit they usually [the Rosamonds] had a ship adjoining to mine,” Oatley mentioned.

“They used to assist me … with the ropes after we used to return in. We shaped a friendship. Socially she grew to become a good friend of mine and in addition by that she met loads of my buddies.”

Rosamond, 47, is standing trial within the NSW District Court docket on prices regarding her alleged function in defrauding NAB of $15 million. She has pleaded not responsible to 60 counts of giving a corrupt profit and 32 counts of dishonestly acquiring, or making an attempt to dishonestly get hold of, a monetary benefit by deception.

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The Crown alleges Rosamond despatched falsified and inflated invoices from her occasion administration firm Human Group to NAB between 2013 and 2017 and paid tens of millions of {dollars} in kickbacks to Rosemary Rogers, chief of employees within the workplace of the financial institution’s then-chief govt, to make sure they have been paid.

The court docket has beforehand heard allegations Rosamond paid for luxurious journey, lodging, and a car for Rogers, in return for Rogers approving inflated invoices that incorrectly attributed Rosamond’s private bills to NAB, including $228,747 for an interior designer to furnish her Potts Point home.

Requested when she had final seen Rosamond, Oatley advised the court docket that she “hadn’t seen Helen for fairly a while as a result of I selected to not” however had seen her in about 2016 at good friend’s sixtieth birthday celebration in Tasmania. It was “fairly occasion”, Oatley added.