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Eddie Hayson embroiled in NRL match-fixing investigation

Kate McClymont The NSW Organised Crime Squad has confirmed investigations are underway into allegations of match-fixing within the NRL.

NRL match-fixing: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating rugby league games

Kate McClymont The NSW Organised Crime Squad are investigating two NRL matches after claims of match-fixing emerged on Thursday morning.

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Rugby league's dirty secret: confessions of an NRL bagman

Kate McClymont They are known as "the money men" and they are rugby league's dirty secret.

Top NRL official rejects claims Parramatta Eels reported cap breach allegations

Chris Barrett and Kate McClymont Club directors may have broken the NRL Code of Conduct by failing to tell the governing body that chief executive Scott Seward had departed last year over allegations he was involved in deals that...

Parramatta Eels salary cap scandal: Emails reveal secret offshore payments

Kate McClymont, Michael Chammas Parramatta Eels former chief executive officer Scott Seward and ex team manager Jason Irvine made a series of secret cash payments into a player's overseas account in breach of salary cap...

North Queensland Cowboys property deals in the spotlight

Kate McClymont, Stuart Goodman and Michael Carayannis A string of North Queensland players, including star Johnathan Thurston, have purchased land and homes from the club's chairman.

Jarryd Hayne's payment trail leads to former Parramatta Eels boss Roy Spagnolo's Abdullah company

Kate McClymont and Stuart Goodman Last year, one of footballer Jarryd Hayne's third-party sponsors wanted to know why he was being asked to pay the star player's money into a mysterious company called Abdullah Pty Ltd.

Jarryd Hayne, Eddie Obeid jnr, the Parramatta Eels and the murky world of secret player payments

Kate McClymont and Stuart Goodman The murky world of secret payments to rugby league players to circumvent the salary cap is haunting the Parramatta Eels.

Who is Roy Spagnolo?

Kate McClymont and Stuart Goodman By the end of 2013, Roy Spagnolo was in a bit of a pickle. He'd failed in his attempt to wrest back control of his beloved Eels from usurpers and more of his property development businesses had...

Obeid family members wanted to become directors of Parramatta Eels

Adrian Proszenko, Kate McClymont and Brad Walter Parramatta officials were in talks with the Obeids about the prospect of some family members becoming Eels directors prior to patriarch Eddie being found guilty of corruption by the ICAC.

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NRL to investigate Eels over Obeid property deal

Kate McClymont and Adrian Proszenko The NRL will investigate whether there are any salary cap implications in a property deal between Parramatta forward Darcy Lussick and a company connected to the Obeid family.

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Flying circus: planes, pythons and peptides

Kate McClymont Ben Darcy, the key person of interest in ASADA's inquiry into the Roosters' blood test results being found on the phone of a person with known links to organised crime, was detained in Germany two...

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Roosters club doctor was not informed of rogue blood-testing

Chris Barrett, Kate McClymont, Andrew Webster The sports nutritionist whose rogue blood-testing found six Sydney Roosters players to have elevated levels of human growth hormone was employed without the knowledge of the club's doctor.

Drug cloud over NRL's Roosters

Kate McClymont Rugby League's minor premiers the Sydney Roosters have admitted they sacked a sports nutrition company after players' blood tests returned elevated readings for the banned substance Human Growth...

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Drugs cloud over Roosters as players' blood results found on criminal's phone

Kate McClymont Rugby League's minor premiers the Sydney Roosters have admitted they sacked a sports nutrition company after players' blood tests returned elevated readings for the banned substance Human Growth...