Fed: I wrote fake email: Godwin Grech

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2009
Fed: I wrote fake email: Godwin Grech

GODWIN GRECH .. the senior Treasury official at the heart of the OzCar affair .. has
admitted he wrote the fake email which alleged Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD gave special
treatment to a Queensland car dealer.

The bombshell admission .. made from a Canberra psyschiatric ward .. comes as the auditor-general
is due to release its findings on the scandal on Tuesday.

Mr GRECH has told the Australian newspaper he co-operated with the opposition .. so
they would pass a bill to set up the OzCar financing scheme for car dealers.

He says he was worried the opposition would use the case of JOHN GRANT .. a car dealer
friend of Mr RUDD'S .. to frustrate the passage of the bill.

Mr GRECH says he still believes there was an original email from Mr RUDD'S office advocating
help for Mr GRANT .. but concedes it can't be found.

AAP RTV saj/wf

KEYWORD: DEALERS GRECH (CANBERRA)

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