NSW police officer signed NDA with AFP over Sydney caravan ‘fake terrorism’ plot

NSW parliamentary inquiry hears extraordinary' revelation that motivation of overseas mastermind was kept secret due to non-disclosure agreement

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A senior New South Wales police officer signed a non-disclosure agreement after being told by the federal police in early February that the motivation of the mastermind" behind Sydney's fake terrorism" caravan plot was to influence prosecutions.

Monday's revelation - which one NSW MP labelled extraordinary" - came during the first hearing of an upper house inquiry into when the premier, Chris Minns, and members of his cabinet knew that the caravan found laden with explosives in January on the outskirts of Sydney was not a terrorism event.

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