Victorian Labor MP gave staffer more than $33,000 to pay for party memberships, Ibac hears
by Nino Bucci from on (#5RF08)
Investigators obtain bank records of transfers between Marlene Kairouz and electorate office manager Kirsten Psaila, hearing told
A Labor MP gave a staffer more than $33,000 to pay the party memberships of people within her faction, according to evidence provided to the Victorian anti-corruption commission.
But the MP, Marlene Kairouz, whose evidence is considered critical to the investigation into the alleged misuse of public funds by paying staff to do factional activity - including branch stacking - will not be subject to a public examination by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Ibac).
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