Greensill Capital lobbied Australian Treasury officials at the height of the COVID-19 crisis as it begged their UK counterparts for access to government-backed emergency loans and Australian insurers dramatically pulled back from the trade credit market.
Documents released by Treasury show the now-collapsed supply chain finance group organised a conference call on April 2, 2020 with James Kelly, Treasury’s head of financial system division, adviser Aidan Storer, and the department’s macroeconomic adviser, Ian Beckett.
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