A number of state MPs are being investigated for potential “criminal conduct”, outgoing anti-corruption commissioner Bruce Lander has revealed in an explosive farewell interview.
UPDATED | A review into the operations of the state’s anti-corruption commissioner is set to recommend dramatically limiting the watchdog’s powers to investigate matters of maladministration, InDaily understands.
Parliamentarians are effectively immune from a finding of misconduct under the state’s ICAC Act because Parliament refuses to impose a Code of Conduct on its own members, the state’s outgoing anti-corruption commissioner argues.
MPs under a public integrity investigation over the potential misuse of parliamentary allowances have refused to release documents requested by the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption, citing parliamentary privilege – prompting a warning that the inquiry may be abandoned.