The ICAC investigated allegations the two men favoured a company they had links to when awarding council contracts.
The state’s anti-corruption watchdog has found a former Sydney council employee engaged in corrupt conduct when he accepted perks worth more than $200,000 in return for favouring his mate’s company for $4.5 million worth of contracts.
“He and Mr Cossu recruited workers who were generally inexperienced in the Australian workforce and who would generally accept low wages to gain experience,” the ICAC report said. “PMLV received a total of $7,184,938, from which it paid the 26 workers a total of $2,677,605, resulting in a gross profit of $4,507,332, from which insurances and other expenses were deducted.”
The photograph of a Toyota Kluger that Pietro Cossu texted Benjamin Webb in October 2021. He later purchased the car for Webb to use.The report said the company won multiple council contracts between 2020 and 2022, sometimes after Cossu helped Clarke price jobs by providing him with information about other contractors’ quotes or tenders, or he had participated on panels that recommended the company win work.
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