A chain of emails about a failed sponsorship deal has exposed embarrassing spelling errors made by disgraced former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer.
The emails were in response to queries by the Auburn Warriors rugby league club asking when Mehajer would pay up his promised $100,000 sponsorship deal.
The club alleges he is yet to pay them a single cent, and as a result the 65-year-old club had been forced to withdraw from competition in 2018 and is at risk of folding.
‘Please Cosinder [sic] this as a formal emailto [sic] confirm that the sponsorship is still at foot,’ Mehajer wrote in August,’ the emails obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald read.
The Auburn Warriors were counting on Salim Mehajer’s (pictured) promised $100,000 to keep their players on the field, however without the cash the Western Sydney team can now no longer compete, the club president claims
‘He didn’t pay us. He didn’t pay a cent,’ Auburn Warriors (logo pictured) president Fedi Sleiman said
‘We are still willing to relpay [sic] release $100,000.00 subject to it being 100% tax decidable [sic],’ it read.
The Auburn Warriors were counting on Mehajer’s promised $100,000 to keep their players on the field, and had foregone other sponsorship offers because Mehajer’s deal was in place.
‘He didn’t pay us. He didn’t pay a cent,’ Auburn Warriors president Fedi Sleiman told the publication.
‘He kept saying ‘it will be this week, I’m talking to my accountant, they froze my accounts, blah, blah’.’
Mehajer struck a deal with the NRL club (pictured) which would see the name of his company, Mehajer Brothers, printed on the Warrior’s jerseys and on signage at Lidcombe Oval in exchange for the lucrative sponsorship deal
Mehajer struck a deal with the NRL feeder club which would see the name of his company, Mehajer Brothers, printed on the Warrior’s jerseys and on signage at Lidcombe Oval.
Mr Sleiman said he attempted to renegotiate the deal in order to collect the sum over two years instead of one, however Mehajer did not cooperate.
The club laid bare the grossly misspelled emails Mehajer sent in August where he repeatedly promised he would honour the six-figure deal.
But while the Auburn Warriors (pictured) honoured their part of the deal, the club alleges Mehajer failed to pay a single cent in return
Mr Sleiman told the publication he attempted to renegotiate the deal in order to collect even some of the outstanding sponsorship funds, however Mehajer (pictured) did not cooperate
Mr Sleiman said he has tried to save the Auburn Warrior’s from folding by paying out of his own pocket and was forced to knock back a $50,000 deal because of his contract with Mehajer.
The Auburn Warriors were founded in 1953 and had teams compete in the Sydney Shield and Ron Massey competitions, even making it to the Ron Massey 2017 grand final.
But the star players are now left in limbo with no club to represent – and without a last-minute sponsorship the Warriors could be out for 2019 too.
Mehajer remains behind bars after he was refused bail over allegations he staged a car crash in October last year to avoid a court appearance for an assault.
The former Auburn deputy mayor is in a maximum security prison while he awaits trial for perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to cheat and defraud.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Auburn Warriors rugby club and Mehajer’s legal team for comment.