The NRL integrity unit will investigate the role players agents may have played in the Cronulla salary cap rort after further details of undisclosed payments were revealed.

New accreditation rules implemented this year allow the NRL to appropriately punish agents who are found to have knowingly played a part in contravening the salary cap.

Todd Greenberg has previously flagged examinations into the role agents play in the NRL. Credit:AAP

The changes were made in the wake of a string of cap scandals which have rocked the game but, for the first time, the Herald understands the new power the governing body boasts could be put to use in the near future.

With the investigation into the full extent of Cronulla's cap rort now complete, it's understood the integrity unit's attention will now turn to the role played by agents in a scheme which delivered almost $1 million in illegal payments to Sharks players.