Victorian MP employed ‘factional operatives’ for taxpayer-funded political work, Ibac hears
by Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#5RMT6)
Adem Somyurek tells inquiry it was widespread practice for staff to perform electorate work when there was nothing else to do
Adem Somyurek, the Victorian MP who has been accused of orchestrating a vast branch-stacking operation in the state, claims he denies, has admitted taxpayer-funded staff within his electorate office did political work, but that it was on a relatively insignificant scale.
Somyurek, an upper house MP, is giving evidence in a public hearing as part of an Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Ibac) investigation into the alleged misuse of public funds by the Victorian branch of the ALP.
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