Salim Mehajer: Auburn deputy mayor suspended for failing to disclose financial interests

A tribunal has moved to suspend Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer from civic office for four months for failing to disclose all of his financial interests.

The Office of Local Government has been investigating Councillor Mehajer over a commercial building his company owns on Mary Street in Auburn.

It has been looking at whether the 29-year-old breached pecuniary interest laws by failing to declare the interest when he voted to increase floor space ratios on the building, as well as its height.

Those changes added up to $1 million in value to the property.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found Cr Mehajer breached pecuniary interest laws on three occasions — once in 2012 and twice in 2013.....
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