When police raided the residences they found boxes of luxurious Hermes Birkin handbags,423 watches,14 tiaras and other jewellery and cash.
Independent MP for Indi Helen Haines says the government’s federal integrity agency must have powers to probe conduct that is not prima facie corruption.
The now ex-boss of Ravensthorpe shire created purchase orders,worth nearly $55,000 combined,that came out of the local government’s budget and went into a sex worker’s bank account.
The former Malaysian prime minister failed in his last-minute bids to have his 12-year prison sentence thrown out.
Con Hindi has a degree in electrical engineering,an enthusiasm for looking things up on Google and an interest in waste-to-energy technology.
The corruption watchdog warned politicians and their advisers that they “do not have an unfettered discretion to distribute public funds”.
The three-time mayor of Hurstville Council has told the ICAC how he came to be in the pocket of a Chinese property developer.
Joe Tripodi,a former Labor minister and owner of Crazy for Candy in Burwood,has been charged over his connection to a doctored cabinet document.
It is the first time former NSW Labor ministers Joe Tripodi and Tony Kelly have faced criminal charges flowing from an ICAC inquiry.
Philip Uy texted a photo of bundled cash days after the councillors voted to support a proposed property development in 2018,an ICAC inquiry has been told.
The Greens want the federal integrity commission to have broader investigative powers and independent funding.