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‘Really disgusting’: Surgeons probed over ‘operating on multiple TAC patients at same time’
IBAC is investigating allegations surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital monopolised TAC patients and billed the insurer for operating on multiple patients at once.
- by Henrietta Cook, Broede Carmody and Carla Jaeger
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Victoria Police conduct
Road rage outside prestigious school snares top cop in corruption probe
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson was involved in a verbal altercation with a Haileybury college parent when he got stuck in school pick-up traffic.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Local council
‘7 grams of the best’: Former Moonee Valley mayor’s cocaine messages revealed in IBAC probe
A former mayor of an inner-north Melbourne council traded cocaine for favours and workshopped a bribery scheme to pay unnamed councillors up to $60,000 to buy their votes, a wide-ranging anti-corruption investigation has found.
- by Rachael Dexter
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Victoria Police conduct
Policeman who admitted to taking bribes from debt collector quietly resigns
Three years after an anti-corruption investigation was launched, a police officer who admitted to accepting payments for helping a debt collector and convicted criminal has not been charged.
- by Cameron Houston
Damning IBAC report exposes influence of Peter Marshall and firefighters union
Marshall asked staff at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to gather sensitive information for him, and the union exerted unprecedented influence over the running of the fire service, report finds.
- by Kieran Rooney
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Victoria Police conduct
Police officers quizzed over arrest that left builder clinging to life
Luke Briggs is in hospital covered in bruises and on life support with a catastrophic brain injury after an arrest in Hoppers Crossing, leaving his family demanding answers.
- by Cameron Houston
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Local council
Cash for access: Councillors ask corruption watchdog to investigate scheme
Most Port Phillip councillors want IBAC to investigate a donation scheme set up to fund a community group that financially backs two of their colleagues.
- by Annika Smethurst and Kieran Rooney
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Fair Work
Union at centre of IBAC probe being investigated for funnelling money into training organisation
The Victorian Health Workers Union is being investigated over allegations it secretly funnelled union money into a training organisation that an anti-corruption commission previously found was an abject failure.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Court dismisses developer Woodman’s claim against IBAC
Supreme Court finds that IBAC had the right to publicly grill developer John Woodman in 2019.
- by Royce Millar
Corruption watchdog to take negative findings out of report after High Court loss
Victoria’s IBAC has agreed to amend its report of a major investigation after being successfully challenged by an organisation and a public officer.
- by Kieran Rooney
Andrews’ attack on corruption watchdogs stuns integrity experts
In one of his first interviews since stepping down, the former premier said there was “not an accountability officer that doesn’t want more money, more power”.
- by Broede Carmody and Rachel Eddie
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/independent-broad-based-anti-corruption-commission-jd9