Only in Victoria could the Labor party get away with misusing tax payers money and get away with it because their police and IBAC protecting them.
HE WAS QUESTIONED IN PRIVATE.Damning allegations have emerged that senior officers within Victoria Police prevented detectives from arresting and prosecuting up to 16 members of the Andrews Government over the ‘red shirts rort’.
Red shirts rort
The ‘red shirts rort’ involves allegations that almost $400,000 in taxpayer identified by the Victorian Ombudsman as being misused via falsely signed timesheets for Labor field campaigners and organisers in the lead up to the 2014 state election.
‘Secret’ documents leaked
Documents from 2018 that were reportedly leaked to the media are said to reveal that detectives from the state’s fraud squad who were investigating the alleged rort became frustrated by the lack of cooperation by the members of parliament.
It is reported that, as a result, they urged their superiors to approve arrests, but were directed by high-ranking officers that the politicians were “not be arrested, photographed, searched if they are interviewed”.
The files are said to explicitly state that the intervention by senior police was to be kept secret.
It is further reported that detectives were discouraged from using traditional methods of investigation including raids, or arresting MPS with the aim of opening up new lines of inquiry, or to prompt suspects to cooperate.
Instead, more than a dozen former Labor staffers were questioned.
The leaked documents also suggest that detectives believed there was sufficient evidence to prosecute the politicians.
Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes has refused to comment on the saga, previously stating it “is a matter for police.”
Police as political attack dogs
Many Victorians however, smell a cover-up and want the rule of law to apply; that is, for politicians to be as accountable for alleged criminal offences as members of the general public.
Some has gone so far as to label police as ‘lapdogs’ and ‘attack dogs’ for members of parliament, and others in positions of power and influence.
No comment by police
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