A laptop belonging to a disgraced WA MP who used a taxpayer allowance to visit strip clubs contains 150 gigabytes of deleted material.
The laptop belonging to a former WA MP, who used a taxpayer-funded allowance to visit strip clubs and travel interstate to meet women for sex, still has not been handed over to officers investigating potential wrongdoing.Mr Edman said the laptop's information could "bury people"The laptop seized from former Liberal MP Phil Edman contained more than 150 gigabytes of deleted material investigators said could be of "significant interest".
"Two years on and we have nothing," Corruption and Crime Commissioner John McKechnie told a parliamentary committee hearing.Mr McKechnie said officials had only just discovered the existence of the extra 150 gigabytes of data on the laptop. engaged in serious misconduct by deliberately choosing to use their electorate allowances to fund personal lifestyle expenses.
But the computer is still yet to be returned to the CCC and remains under the control of the Legislative Council.Appearing before the parliamentary committee, which oversees the CCC, Mr McKechnie expressed frustration in the long wait to regain access to the laptop.
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