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Operation Pelican investigation report

Investigation Report · National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) · Commonwealth · Dated

Findings
2
Recommendations
1
Report length
30 pages

Official source

Operation Pelican investigation report

PDF · 30 pages · 569 KB · nacc.gov.au

Summary

The report's own summary: Executive summary, page 4

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

  • The National Anti-Corruption Commission and Australian Federal Police jointly investigated whether a WSA employee sought a bribe during procurement of car park management services.

    Report, page 4

  • The Commission found that the procurement manager sought about $250,000 to arrange the award of a contract and that this was serious corrupt conduct through abuse of office.

    Report, page 22

  • The Commission found no evidence that the conduct was systemic within WSA.

    Report, page 4

  • It made one recommendation asking the Attorney General’s Department to consider changes allowing the relevant conduct to be prosecuted under Commonwealth law.

    Report, page 28

Findings 2

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. Findings

    Finding

    Mr Erasery thereby engaged in conduct which was an abuse of his office as a public official within subsection 8(1)(c) of the NACC Act, and thus engaged in corrupt conduct.

    Report, page 22, Findings

  2. Findings

    Finding

    Accordingly, for the purposes of subsection 149(3), Mr Erasery engaged in corrupt conduct of a serious nature.

    Report, page 22, Findings

Recommendations 1

  1. Recommendation

    The Attorney General’s Department should give consideration to measures to enable the relevant conduct to be prosecuted under Commonwealth law.

    Report, page 28, Recommendations

Published responses

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Official documents 1

About the report

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Rights
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia; licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, except the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, the Commission's logo, third-party material, trade marks and images (report page 2).

Notes on this record

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  • Apart from Mr Erasery and WSA, the report states that it uses pseudonyms (page 4).

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