How ICAC lost patience with ‘Mr Ten Per Cent’ and his selective memory |
How ICAC lost patience with ‘Mr Ten Per Cent’ and his selective memory
July 31, 2026 — 5:31pm
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While Rob “Mr Ten Per Cent” Assaf’s capacity to recall crucial details about tax dodging, branch stacking or issuing sham invoices was unfortunately lacking, his capacity to deflect blame was remarkably sharp.
The way the 30-year-old tells it, he was merely a backseat passenger who was too young and naive to know about any of the above allegations.
Instead, it was his former friend Christian Ellis, 34, whom he threw under the ICAC bus. “Christian’s a liar. He’s greedy. I don’t trust him,” Assaf recalled telling the then head of Catholic Schools NSW Dallas McInerney.
The revelations came on Friday during the commission’s wide-ranging inquiry into Liberal Party branch stacking and illegal donations codenamed Operation Rosny.
The inquiry has heard Assaf began working at Catholic Schools NSW in October 2019. But weeks earlier he had landed a 10 per cent “referral fee” for securing Catholic Schools NSW as the first client........