Detective Sergeant Wayne Dean has admitted to accepting 'gratitude' payments after helping to resolve debt disputes.
A Melbourne police officer accused of serious misconduct has struggled to explain how he came to have $18,000 in cash stashed in a safe at this home.IBAC has heard Detective Sergeant Wayne Dean detained and threatened to charge debtors who owed moneyHe claimed large cash sums found at his home were the proceeds of sales of household items
"The purpose of that was to scare the alleged debtor," counsel assisting the commission Catherine Boston asked."All I can say is it wasn't my intention to do that, [the police station] was just somewhere for common ground." However, when asked about a recorded conversation where Mr Meletsis promised $3,000 in exchange for video footage, Sergeant Dean denied he had ever been paid that amount and said Mr Meletsis had been exaggerating.
On several occasions, counsel assisting Ms Boston questioned the truth of the officer's evidence, on one occasion after she had played a tape of a secretly recorded conversation involving Sergeant Dean.
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