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Metro Trains manager tipped off Transclean about audit during Victoria’s second COVID-19 wave, IBAC hears
A Metro Trains manager tipped off a cleaning company about a surprise COVID-19 cleaning audit during Melbourne’s deadly second coronavirus wave last year, a corruption inquiry has heard.
Key points:
- A phone call played to the IBAC hearing revealed since-sacked Metro Trains manager Peter Bollas gave Transclean the dates and times of the audit
- He also warned the company its spraying of trains needed to improve and suggested they doctor timesheets
- Earlier, a Transclean employee admitted he was part of a plan to sabotage testing of a new sanitiser
Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) is holding an inquiry into alleged corrupt payments from a cleaning company to two public transport officials.
Today’s IBAC hearing…
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