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Operation Young investigation report

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

Findings, opinions and statements
3
Report length
48 pages

Official source

Operation Young investigation report

PDF · 48 pages · 647 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.

  • Operation Young was a joint investigation by the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity into allegations that three border officers helped others import prohibited goods.

    Report, page 4

  • The investigation did not establish that the officers helped anyone import prohibited items or engaged with criminal entities.

    Report, page 4

  • The National Anti-Corruption Commission nevertheless found that one officer abused his office by disclosing sensitive information to benefit an associate who was a person of interest.

    Report, page 4 · Report, page 5 · Report, page 37

  • The Commission made no corruption findings against the other two officers.

    Report, page 4

  • The Commissioner said evidence of possible Commonwealth offences would be provided to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.

    Report, page 40

Findings, opinions and statements 3

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. Consideration

    Finding

    It follows that Mr Andreopoulos engaged in an abuse of office, by improperly disclosing sensitive information to which he had access only because of his official position, to an associate, and thereby engaged in corrupt conduct.

    Report, page 37, Consideration

  2. Consideration

    No finding

    It is therefore not established that Mr Collins engaged in corrupt conduct.

    Report, page 39, Consideration

  3. Consideration

    No finding

    It is therefore not established that Mr Kalam engaged in corrupt conduct.

    Report, page 39, Consideration

Recommendations

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

Published responses

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Official documents 1

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manual publisher download supplied by the OPAX maintainer, 11 Nov 2026
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

  • Source document supplied as a manual publisher download supplied by the OPAX maintainer, 11 Nov 2026, from the publisher URL cited.
  • No numbered recommendations were found in the report text; recorded as not extracted, not as none.
  • Apart from Mr Andreopoulos, Mr Collins, Mr Kalam and their businesses, the report states that it uses pseudonyms (page 5).

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