Salim Mehajer is facing a lengthy stint in jail after he was found guilty of rigging the 2012 Auburn Council election.
A week after he was released on bail on separate charges, the former Deputy Mayor of Auburn jogged from a Porsche into Central Local Court for today’s decision.
Salim Mehajer walking into Sydney court this morning, where he was convicted of electoral fraud. (Supplied)
Fatima Mehajer has already pleaded guilty to 77 counts of giving false information to the electoral commission. (AAP)
He watched from the body of the court as Magistrate Beverley Schurr announced she had found “Mr Mehajer was part of the joint criminal enterprise” with his sister Fatima Mehajer.
The siblings communicated by text message about changing the addresses of people they wanted to stand alongside them in the election, to homes within the electorate.
“Make sure they’re all in Auburn” Mehajer wrote to his sister.
Magistrate Schurr said he was well aware those people actually resided in homes at Pemulway, Concord, Acacia Gardens and Greenacre.
She was also satisfied he forged Electoral Commission documents for friends and family to make them eligible to vote in the election.
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Those family members included then fiancé Aysha Learmonth.
Mehajer was elected to council with less than 10 percent of the formal vote, his sister did not make it on to council.
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