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Trains boss claims $10,000 cash was a gambling win – The Australian Financial Review
The suspended CEO of V/Line, James Pinder, says cash he received from a company that cleaned the regional rail line’s trains was winnings from gambling, not bribes….
Mr Pinder said he wanted to keep conversations secret because he had “done the wrong thing” and had borrowed money from people he shouldn’t have and was in a gambling arrangement with the CEO of Transclean. He did not disclose any conflicts of interest to V/Line’s board.
“I was thinking I was going to lose my job, which means I lose everything and the reputation that I have established,” he told the hearing.
Ms Tsakopoulos, whom Mr Pinder met in 2013, lent the V/Line CEO some money to help him buy…
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