Transport agencies have been fighting the release of details about investigations into allegations involving senior executives.
Senior executives at Sydney Metro are alleged to have created a role paying a salary of just under half a million dollars a year to avoid a process that would require the agency’s chief to sign off on the recruitment, and to enable them to then award it without a competitive tender.
Sydney Metro said in a statement that it took the allegations regarding senior executives “very seriously”, and the matters were investigated by Transport for NSW’s workplace conduct investigations unit and appropriate actions were taken arising from the findings.“These findings were shared with the Independent Commission Against Corruption. It is not appropriate to comment on the details of a confidential investigation,” it said.
Mason’s finding that the internal documents should be released needs to be considered by parliament’s privileges committee on Wednesday before they can be publicly released. Heavily redacted documents have revealed that investigators substantiated some of the allegations in the Elara probe. An index of the privileged documents tabled to parliament included a redacted entry titled “confirmation of submission: Sydney Metro to ICAC-Elara”.
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