New South Wales Crime Commission gets veto over Rosemary Rogers’ Williamstown mansion sale

Rosemary Rogers’ house in Williamstown is up for sale. Picture: Supplied

For years, Andrew Thorburn’s former chief-of-staff Rosemary Rogers has been a subject of intrigue.

“How much is Rosemary on?” her NAB colleagues used to ask as the office assistant assembled a $6.2 million property portfolio.

As Margin Call reported on Monday, in recent days a ‘for sale’ sign has popped up out the front of the Williamstown trophy home Rogers bought for $3.8 million in late 2017, at the top of the market.

“Can she even do that?” asked her neighbours in Melbourne’s bayside Williamstown.

The interior of Rosemary Rogers’ luxury Williamstown home. Picture: Supplied

The property, after all, is the subject of a freeze order in the NSW Supreme Court, along with her rural retreat in Bellbrae, other properties, two boats, a boat trailer, a Range Rover and three bank accounts with her former employer NAB.

Margin Call can now answer the most pressing question in Melbourne’s prestige property circles.

Rogers - one half of an alleged multi-million fraud ring run out of Thorburn’s office - can sell the place thanks to a variation in the NSW Supreme Court’s freeze orders.

The court has ordered that the money from the sale - being run by prestige agents RT Edgar - is allowed to repay the mortgage, which was issued by Rogers’ former employer NAB.

Rosemary Rogers leaving Surry Hills police station in Sydney in March. Picture: Jonathan Ng

The court has ruled that sale proceeds can also cover “reasonable legal and conveyancing costs”, “any reasonable agent’s commission” and “the fee payable to a registered valuer”.

And there’s also an interesting caveat in any sale - the final price must be “agreed to in writing by the Plaintiff”.

That means the New South Wales Crime Commission has a veto on any transaction. It’s a wonder they don’t have their logo stamped alongside RT Edgar’s on the sign out the front.