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Bill Gletsos COI
THE ACF has had some difficulty in having its 2008 Australian Championships confirmed in a timely manner. When it became apparent that there was no bidder able to organise sponsorship at such short notice, the ACF voted away the 50% share of profits by-law. It further encouraged interest with a promise to cover any losses up to $2 000.
Chess Victoria (CV) placed a bid and at least two other potential bidders are constructing bids. Throughout this process, the NSWCA President refused to enter into any dialogue with potential bidders from NSW declaring that the NSWCA would not bear any responsibility for a bid emanating from NSW.
We now know that, there is a Parramatta NSW bid with Shane Burgess (NSWCA Vice President) as principal. The bid is authorised by Bill Gletsos. The Paramatta bid has cheaper entry fees than CV because NSWCA is providing sponsorship money.
The CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
Bill Gletsos is a Vice President of the ACF.
Bill Gletsos is the President of the NSWCA.
As ACF V. Pres., he played a major part as the ACF
1) Voted away the 50% share of profits by-law and
2) Offered to cover any losses up to $2 000 by the winning bidder.
As NSWCA Pres., he was personally and publicly
1) Disparaging of the Chess Victoria bid.
2) Non-supportive of other potential NSW bidding groups.
3) Deliberately omitted from the chess community debate, a secret plan: a harboured plan whereby the NSWCA Vice President would be able to place a “better” bid than any other group because the details of those other groups’ bids would be known to the NSWCA.
Bill Gletsos’ manifest inability to ethically manage conflicts of interest have brought NSW chess and the game into disrepute. I call upon Bill Gletsos to immediately resign not from either the NSWCA or the ACF, thereby resolving the conflict of interest matter, but to resign from both bodies.
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