Former Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom FLEES Eire fearing extradition – and will not reveal his present whereabouts – ‘conserving my head down, that is for positive’

Former Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom is formally in hiding after he left Eire fearing he can be extradited to France on a European arrest warrant.

It comes after Elsom, 41, who performed 75 caps for the Wallabies, was just lately sentenced in absentia to 5 years in jail for misuse of company property throughout his tenure as president of French rugby membership Narbonne. 

The explosive allegations embody Elsom backdating a membership physician’s contract, had a cost from beer large Heineken illegally transferred to an organization in his title and he additionally agreed to wage advances for gamers.

Elsom was discovered responsible of forgery and ordered to repay €705,000 ($1.1million) from his time on the membership between 2015 and 2016.

He has denied any wrongdoing – and his present location is unknown.

‘All I can say is I spoke to the gardai [Irish police] and so they stated if I am in Eire they’re going to need to deliver me in,’ Elsom instructed the Sydney Morning Herald.

‘The vital factor to recollect is that if I’m in custody, my defence will get much more costly and so much tougher. 

‘If I am detained, I will want to interact a lawyer to do all the pieces for me, all of the cellphone conversations, to try to discover paperwork, to speak to folks, to try to defend myself.’

Elsom, 41, was just lately sentenced to 5 years in jail following alleged conduct when president of French rugby membership Narbonne between 2015 and 2016

The previous Wallabies skipper (proper) performed 75 Check matches for the Wallabies, with 22 as captain

By way of being doubtlessly recognised in public, Elsom admitted: ‘I will need to go outdoors sooner or later however I’m conserving my head down, that is for positive.’

Earlier than leaving Eire in a rush, Elsom was teaching at a faculty in Dublin – and liked the very fact their rugby program was solely in its infancy stage.

‘It isn’t as in case you’re rolling right into a Joeys [St Joseph’s College in Sydney’s Hunters Hill] or a Nudgee [College],’ he stated.

‘They had been going up in opposition to a lot larger groups and simply being part of it, being on the sector on a regular basis, taking the weights classes, doing the critiques with them…it was nice to be there. 

‘It was one thing that had been lacking [in my life] for a very long time.’

Elsom can be a adorned determine at Irish membership aspect Leinster, who he helped win the 2009 Heineken Cup remaining.

Earlier than signing with the NSW Waratahs in 2003, the Australian Schoolboys rugby star performed Jersey Flegg rugby league on the Bulldogs alongside the likes of future footy legends Johnathan Thurston and Sonny Invoice Williams.