Operation Lyrebird Part: A special report in relation to a corruption complaint concerning the identified transactions as part of the City to the Lake Project

Summary

Findings, opinions and statements 1

Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.

1. reasonable suspicion of corruption

   Other

   In the present case, the evidence – in both documentary and oral form – gathered by the Auditor-General and the Committee, when considered as a whole, provides an adequate basis for explaining the impugned transactions for present purposes and does not raise a reasonable suspicion of corruption.

   Report, page 5

Recommendations

No recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.

Published responses

No published response was found.

Notes on this record

• Date is the date of the Commission's letter or statement giving the report to the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly (report page 2).
• No numbered recommendations of the Commission's own were found in the report text. Numbered recommendations quoted in the report from other bodies are not recorded.

Coverage

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• The lobbying inquiry (open, with two discussion papers) has not reported; discussion papers are not reports.
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