Letter to Prof. Peter Rathjen

Dear Professor

 

I read that you have accepted the position of Vice Chancellor at University of Tasmania. Please find attached proof that UTAS is up to their eyeballs in major corruption. They are given hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer's money and are accountable to no one, protected by politicians and the media. I have come up with a more appropriate name for our state, Tasmafia and UTAS is the Godfather of Tasmafia, with an insatiable appetite for wasting taxpayer's money.  I have sent proof of the misappropriation of funds, to the highest levels of government to no avail. I sent emails to the mayor and aldermen of the LCC giving them proof that in Hobart, UTAS paid ten million dollars over market value for land, to their multimillionaire mates Ali Sultan and Robert Rockefeller. But it made no difference they went ahead a gifted UTAS 5 million dollars of ratepayer's land.

 

Premier Hodgman won't answer my emails, understandable I guess, his wife Nicky, is a Senior Executive for Integrity and Ethics at UTAS. Caroline Rockefeller in one of the directors of the University of Tasmania Foundation, she and hubby have certainly been helping themselves, what a disgraceful joke. Professor Rathjen helped himself and his wife to $50,000 travel expenses in less than six months, $1,100 per night at the Sofitel in New York, Christmas and New Year in Cancun, Mexico. The Godfather is answerable to no one, and they even have the audacity to teach law. Welcome to Tasmafia Professor but leave your ethics at home they are not wanted down here.

 

Regards

Elaine Anderson

 

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 The Government sold Mr Sultan the two properties he bought, as if the government didn't know UTas had earmarked the block for their new Menzies 1&2 development.

 

On 20/07/2003 Mr Ali Sultan bought No 55 Campbell St for $1,098,00 market value. On 21/12/05 UTAS paid Mr Sultan 3 million dollars.

 

On 9/5/2003 Mr Sultan bought No 12-16 Bathurst St for $410,000 again market value. On 22/07/2009 he sold this property to UTAS for 3.5 million dollars. 

 

No 8 Bathurst St was bought by G & L Management on 14/05/08 for $446.125 and sold to UTAS (taxpayers) on 17/12/08 for $1,550,000 . No 10 Bathurst St was also purchased by G & L Management on the same day for $203.500 and sold on 17/12/08 for $1,550,000. How to make 2.45 million in seven months.......easy get your mates at UTAS to give you taxpayers money. 

 

In 2003 the same year that Mr Sultan went on his buying spree another long time business associate of UTAS also bought two properties, again paying market value $980,000 for each property. The properties were No 9 and No 13 Liverpool St. In 2006 UTAS paid him $2,420,000 for each property. What a great year 2006 was for Robert Rockefeller, as the following article from Crikey points out.

This article is from Crikey Dec 2006.…..   Early this year, the University of Tasmania sold 42 houses in the expensive suburbs of Sandy Bay, Battery Point, Dynnyrne and 

South Hobart to a "private vendor" for a bargain basement price of $13.5 million. 

 

Crikey can reveal that the buyer was the Rockefellers

Bought over many years, the houses have been used as a below-market rent option for 200 students. While most of the buildings are run down, they are in prime locations, most of them in Sandy Bay, and all within walking distance of the university's Sandy Bay campus and the CBD.

 

Given the recent surge in Hobart property values – which continues against the trend in Melbourne and Sydney – the Rockefellers are expected to make a killing when the buildings are renovated or demolished and the sites redeveloped.
While plans are drawn up, the brothers have leased them to the Tasmania University Union for student housing in 2007.   

 

        

Below is an example of a few recent sales of commercial properties in the CBD

 

Office Works Sold for 7.8 million Oct 2014 3236 s/m 

 

Freedom , 80 Brisbane St. Sold for 5.350 million Jan. 2017 7893s/m 

 

Baby World 121 Argyle St. Sold for 1,468,500 Feb. 2016 544 s/m 

 

2-6 Collins St Sold for 5.5 May 2016 3009s/m 

 

112 Murray St Sold for 1.690 in Feb 2014 777s/m 

 

126 Bathurst St Sold for 1.220 million 7/7/16 463 s/m 

 

No 126 Bathurst and No 62-66 Bathurst St are just a few blocks apart. 

 

No 126 sells for market value $2,635 per s/m Surprise, surprise No 62-66 sells for $8,200 per s/m, taxpayers are such generous little souls. 

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Below are another two properties bought by UTAS (taxpayers) from Mr Rockefeller

 

Corner of Bathurst & Argyle Sts, (62-66 Argyle St) Sold for 9.8 million Aug. 2015 1196s/m. Purchaser UTAS seller Calbourne Nominees Pty Ltd

 

Corner of Argyle & Melville Sts. Sold for 9.8 million in Aug. 2015. Purchaser UTAS 
seller Calbourne Nominees Pty Ltd….