Ex-Geelong councillor and TAC executive to face court on IBAC charge
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged a former Geelong deputy mayor and senior TAC executive over an alleged breach of confidentiality.
A former Geelong councillor and deputy mayor will face court after being charged by the state’s powerful corruption watchdog.
Kylie Anne Grzybek is listed to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on December 3 relating to a single charge of breaching a confidential notice.
The charge stems from an ongoing Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) investigation – Operation Carina – into alleged corrupt conduct at the Transport Accident Commission in 2022 and 2023.
Ms Grzybek was a senior TAC executive, acting as the Geelong-based organisation’s head of marketing, communications and external affairs in 2022 and 2023.
It is unclear exactly when she left the TAC and her reasons for doing so.
She was elected to council’s Windermere ward that took in the northern suburbs in 2017 and resigned in May 2023.
In 2019, Ms Grzybek was elected deputy mayor as part of an all-female leadership team alongside mayor Stephanie Asher.
Ms Grzybek, who did not respond to inquiries, said she resigned from council to focus on her family and her full-time TAC role.
“It has been a challenge to juggle the three major competing responsibilities in my life – my professional career, my community responsibilities as an elected councillor and my family life,” she said at the time.
“It has become increasingly challenging and I can no longer undertake all three to my high expectations, and sadly it is my community representation role that I must choose to vacate to return some balance to my life.”
It is understood that no current TAC employees are the subject of IBAC’s investigation.
IBAC has powers to issue confidentiality notices under Section 42 of the IBAC Act, if it is considered that the disclosure of certain restricted information could prejudice an investigation or the fair trial, safety or reputation of a person.
The conduct under investigation is alleged to have occurred at the TAC during 2022 and 2023, a time in which the organisation was led by Joe Calafiore, before former Barwon Water boss Tracey Slatter took over in July 2023.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Mr Calafiore or Ms Slatter.
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