A former University of Sydney IT manager will appear before the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) later this month. The commission said in a statement that it was investigating allegations levelled against Atilla Demiralay and his associates over the use of an agency to recruit contractors and staff to the University. The agency was…
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A visit to Abu Dhabi is at the centre of an ICAC inquiry, writes Linton Besser. In 2004 Andrew Kelly’s former colleague at the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Greg Whiteside, moved into a private sector role in Dubai. There, petro-dollars were raising from the desert a city of impossible excess. Kelly coveted the tax-free lifestyle…
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A member of a Sydney business family at the centre of a NSW corruption inquiry has denied he and his brother tried to intimidate the friend of a key witness outside the hearings. Jimmy Kazal was questioned on Tuesday after the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) widened the terms of its inquiry involving the Kazal…
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THE Independent Commission Against Corruption has widened its inquiry into the relationship between a Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority executive and the Kazal family after Charif Kazal was accused of being “menacing and intimidating” to a friend of a key witness. A TV personality, Michael Hammond, has told the corruption watchdog that he attended the commission’s…
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THE state’s corruption watchdog will open a public inquiry next week into the relationship between Sydney’s powerful Kazal family and a senior government official the Kazals retained in a secret arrangement. A Herald investigation last year revealed the Kazals had secretly provided incentives to Andrew Kelly, then the second-most senior executive at the Sydney Harbour…
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The following article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 13 July 2000 (page 6): Electronic crime, particularly that committed via the Internet, will soon become the biggest challenge facing police and law enforcement agencies, says the former general manager of operations at the National Crime Authority, Mr Peter Lamb. Mr Lamb, who retired last…
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