Skip to content

OPAX is on iPhone and iPad. Get the app

Menu

Operation Luna Special Report (Part 2): An investigation into the allegations of corrupt conduct by Canberra Institute of Technology public officials in connexion with the procurement of organisational change consultancy services.

Special Report (Part 2) · ACT Integrity Commission · Australian Capital Territory · Dated

Summary

The report's own summary: Key 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 examined possible corruption in negotiations and advance payments for the Canberra Institute of Technology’s sixth consultancy contract with Redrouge Nominees Pty Ltd.

    Report, page 5

  • The contract required a third of its price to be paid when it was signed, followed by further payments ahead of the services.

    Report, page 5 · Report, page 6

  • The Commission concluded that the then chief executive and an executive director engaged in serious corrupt conduct through the intentional falsification of a key procurement document.

    Report, page 6 · Report, page 65 · Report, page 66

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

    In the enclosed Second Special Report, I have made adverse findings, and concluded that serious corrupt conduct occurred in connexion with the procurement of the sixth contract entered into between the CIT and Redrouge Nominees Pty Ltd.

    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).
  • 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.