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Operation Pentecost investigation report

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

Findings, opinions and statements
2
Report length
69 pages

Official source

Operation Pentecost investigation report

PDF · 69 pages · 658 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 Pentecost was a joint investigation by the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity and Australian Federal Police into whether a police appointee disclosed sensitive information to a relative.

    Report, page 4

  • The National Anti-Corruption Commission found serious corrupt conduct through abuse of office, involving disclosure of police access to encrypted communications to help a relative avoid police action.

    Report, page 4 · Report, page 47

  • The Commission reported that the evidence did not establish the appointee’s receipt of, or involvement in, a bribe leading up to 30 May 2021.

    Report, page 46

  • The Commissioner said termination would have been recommended had the appointee not already resigned.

    Report, page 48

Findings, opinions and statements 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

    Nonetheless, by disclosing to Mr Dalloway sensitive law enforcement information relating to ANØM, to which Mr Harbani had access by reason of his office, for the improper purpose of assisting a relative, who was suspected of being engaged in criminal conduct, to evade impending law enforcement action, Mr Harbani has engaged in an abuse of office and therefore in corrupt conduct.

    Report, page 47, Findings

  2. Findings

    No finding

    The evidence does not, however, establish that Mr Harbani received or was otherwise involved in a bribe in the period leading up to 30 May 2021.

    Report, page 46, Findings

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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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.
  • The Recommendations section (page 48) makes no recommendation because the appointee had already resigned; recorded as not extracted.
  • The report states that it uses pseudonyms (Use of pseudonyms, page 7).

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