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A former high-flying bureaucrat says she feels like “damaged goods” and has been “let down by the system” after a three-year legal battle defending a failed charge of falsely claiming just $1032.
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Former Renewal SA boss John Hanlon made a claim for the State Government to repay legal costs totalling more than $250,000 just days before prosecutors confirmed he would face fresh charges in the District Court, InDaily can reveal.
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A state MP has launched a stinging attack on the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, accusing it of “unacceptable conduct” over a failed case against two former top Renewal SA bureaucrats, and saying ongoing delays in resolving the matter could amount to “a gross abuse of process”.
A family member of a former Renewal SA executive was allegedly told she would be “raped by ICAC”, parliament has heard, as momentum builds for an inquiry into the anti-corruption watchdog’s handling of the failed case.
ICAC investigators were given the cold shoulder and threatened with legal action by a potential witness who they travelled to Germany to interview as part of their 2019 investigation into ex-Renewal SA CEO John Hanlon, explosive documents tabled in parliament have revealed.
Attorney-General Vickie Chapman says the Director of Public Prosecutions could still pursue a case against two former top Renewal SA executives – despite prosecutors conceding last week they didn’t have enough evidence to proceed – amid questions in parliament about whether she referred an initial allegation to ICAC, sparking the investigation.
EXCLUSIVE | The former senior bureaucrat whose life was turned upside down by a failed corruption probe has broken three years of public silence, blaming a “vexatious allegation” and calling for an overhaul of ICAC and the broader public service, saying: “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”
