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V/Line CEO told cleaning boss COVID-19 could boost coffers, IBAC hears – The Age
Former V/Line boss James Pinder told a cleaning contractor the pandemic presented a financial “opportunity”, phone calls played to anti-corruption hearings reveal….
He told the IBAC hearing he used a burner phone between 2016-2020 to talk to Metro operational fleet manager Peter Bollas and Mr Haritos about a legal gambling syndicate they were a part of. All three men, who called each other “musketeers”, will face the hearings this week.
Mr Bollas, who managed Metro’s cleaning, is also accused of receiving cash payments from Transclean.
In a March 10 intercepted phone conversation between Mr Pinder and Mr Haritos, played to the live-streamed hearings, Mr Pinder…
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