Paul Pisasale hit with nine further charges by CCC
FORMER Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has been slapped with nine further charges, including corruption and multiple counts of fraud.
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FORMER Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale is facing nine new charges including corruption and multiple fraud counts.
Pisasale has already been charged with 14 offences amid an ongoing Crime and Corruption Commission investigation that has so far led to 86 charges against 15 people.
He will face a further charge of official corruption and eight additional fraud charges.
The CCC has also laid further charges against barrister and Pisasale friend Sam Di Carlo.
The organisation yesterday said an Eight Mile Plains man, 61, would face one additional charge of official corruption.
Pisasale announced he was quitting on medical grounds in June last year in a bizarre press conference in hospital while wearing a hospital gown and bed socks. It came a day after CCC officers raided his office.
It later emerged he had been stopped at Melbourne airport carrying $50,000 cash.
He was meeting with a Melbourne developer at the time, who had a project at Yamanto in the Ipswich council region.
Di Carlo last year told The Courier-Mail the money was for a cash settlement for a client and was unrelated to the Melbourne developer.
He then said he asked Pisasale to carry the money to Brisbane for him as a favour.
Di Carlo did not respond to calls yesterday. He is already facing charges including two counts of perjury, possessing ammunition and possessing restricted drugs.
Pisasale, who could not be contacted, is on charges of fraud, perjury, possession of a restricted sex drug, extortion, attempting to pervert the course of justice and assault.
He was also charged with corruption last October, but the Director of Public Prosecutions has indicated it could substitute the charge by four secret commission charges.
Pisasale is expected to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday and Di Carlo on August 28.
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