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Operation Juno Investigation Report: Concerning certain conduct of Mr Walter Sofronoff KC.

Investigation Report · ACT Integrity Commission · Australian Capital Territory · Dated

Findings
1
Report length
131 pages

Official source

Operation Juno Investigation Report: Concerning certain conduct of Mr Walter Sofronoff KC.

PDF · 131 pages · 1.1 MB · integrity.act.gov.au

Summary

The report's own summary: Outline of findings, pages 6 to 7

Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.

  • The ACT Integrity Commission investigated whether a Board of Inquiry’s disclosures to journalists breached its legal obligations and amounted to corrupt conduct.

    Report, page 5

  • Its investigation covered confidential material given to journalists, the report’s release to journalists before public publication, and whether affected people received natural justice.

    Report, page 5 · Report, page 6

  • The Commission concluded that the official engaged in serious corrupt conduct that undermined the inquiry’s integrity and fairness and was likely to threaten public confidence.

    Report, page 7 · Report, page 73

  • The Commission made no adverse comment or opinion about anyone else named in the report.

    Report, page 7

Findings 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. serious corrupt conduct

    Finding

    The Commission has concluded that certain aspects of Mr Sofronoff’s conduct as Board of an Inquiry instituted under the Inquiries Act 1991 amounted to serious corrupt conduct as defined in the Integrity Commission Act 2018.

    Report, page 4

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 4).
  • The Commission accepts that s 36 of the Inquiries Act is not capable of applying to a single member Board of Inquiry. In Federal Court proceedings NSD389/2025 commenced by Mr Sofronoff in relation to the Operation Juno report, the Commission did not seek to defend its finding that Mr Sofronoff engaged in conduct that could constitute an offence contrary to s 36 of the Inquiries Act 1991.
  • 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

This publisher

  • Confidential reports given to a Legislative Assembly committee are not published; only the Commission's announcement of the Operation Kite confidential report is recorded.
  • The Commission does not publish numbered recommendations of its own in these reports; numbered recommendations quoted from the Auditor-General or the Public Accounts Committee are not recorded.
  • Ministerial responses to special reports are presented to the Legislative Assembly and are not on the Commission's site; they are not loaded.
  • The lobbying inquiry (open, with two discussion papers) has not reported; discussion papers are not reports.
  • Discontinued investigations are not published individually.

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