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ABS insider trader was ‘susceptible to blackmail’

Angus Grigg
Angus GriggNational affairs correspondent
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One of the men at the centre of Australia’s biggest insider trading heist, Christopher Hill, failed a psychological evaluation for a job at the country’s digital spy agency because he was deemed too “susceptible to blackmail”.

In the months after failing the test, Hill began passing confidential information from his workplace, The Australian Bureau of Statistics, to his university friend, Lukas Kamay.

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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com

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