‘It’s wrong’: Adem Somyurek tells Victorian branch stacking probe he ‘lost all perspective’ in factional battle
by Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#5RP9T)
Former Labor state government minister tells Ibac you can condemn me in the strongest possible terms'
A former Victorian government minister has admitted signing off timesheets that allowed a staff member doing factional work to be paid with taxpayer funds - but Adem Somyurek has denied trying to hide that other employees were performing similar tasks.
Somyurek told the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Ibac) he agreed it was wrong and he lied when he signed a timesheet approving the payments to a casual staff member he knew was doing work on behalf of the faction at the time.
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