The offices of four leading player managers have been raided by the NSW fraud squad in relation to Parramatta’s salary cap rorts.
Fairfax media reports Police arrived at 9:30am Thursday armed with warrants at the Woollahra home of Jarryd Hayne's agent Wayne Beavis as well as Sam Ayoub’s Leichhardt office and George Mimis and Paul Sutton’s Pitt Street office.
The raids are in relation to an ongoing salary cap investigation by NSW Police regarding dodgy third party payments.
The Eels were stripped of 12 competition points and fined $1 million following an NRL investigation.
The board was sacked including chairman Steve Sharp who has previously said he was immediately contacted by Beavis, Mimis and Ayoub after he replaced former chairman Roy Spagnolo in the top job.
Sharp said the managers told him their players would have to continue to be paid third party payments.
"We won't honour anything that we don't know anything about,” Sharp said in a sworn testimony.
"And I said, 'Well, you can take your players out of the club, take your wooden spoon with you and - and piss off '.”
However, the club succumbed to the demands of the agents and continued to pay players under the table.
