Royal Commissioner Margaret McMurdo has recommended that Simon Overland and former Purana Taskforce detectives be referred to a special investigator.
Royal commission has delivered a damning assessment of Victoria Police's recruitment and management of barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo.
Who is Nicola Gobbo? What did she do? Why was it so bad? And what has the royal commission's final report found?
The Victorian opposition wants a Fitzgerald-style special prosecutor to investigate police who may have helped Nicola Gobbo pervert the course of justice.
Investigation into lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo has implicated current and former police in criminal conduct. Just don't expect anyone to be charged.
The royal commission has identified 124 criminal convictions tainted by the double life of Nicola Gobbo that may be set aside.
“He has a first-class bullshit detector[and] will call you out if you try and fake it,” one former colleague says.
It was always going to be risky to tell the tale of the criminal barrister turned police informer,but for the producers the story was too important not to try.
Head of the royal commission'very concerned'when,for a second time,evidence from a senior and experienced officer pertinent to the inquiry was excluded.
Lawyer-turned-snitch Nicola Gobbo has accused a senior police figure of doctoring a witness statement provided under her name,raising corruption allegations at the centre of the most expensive investigation in Victoria Police history.
Known officially as the Archive Services Centre,it’s been privately called the"Bermuda Triangle"of police files.