Corruption outcomes

In October 2016, the CCC commenced Operation Windage to investigate allegations of corruption related to the Ipswich City Council. A total of 16 people, including council employees, two mayors, two Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and one Chief Operating...

In July 2009, former Queensland Minister Gordon Nuttall was found guilty of corruptly receiving almost $360,000 over three years from prominent Queensland businessmen, Ken Talbot and Harold Shand. He was sentenced to seven years jail for each offence to be...

The former Director of Engineering at Etheridge Shire Council, and his friend, the director of a engineering company, have both been jailed for secret commissions offences following a CCC investigation.

Following a CCC investigation, Mrs Suzette Webster, an Education Queensland employee, was found guilty of fraud in relation to claiming sick leave and being absent from work without proper authorisation over a four-year period.

Operation Front resulted in eight elected officials from Logan City Council being charged with 14 serious criminal offences. Prosecutions of fraud were discontinued by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) on 14 April 2021 in the Brisbane...

Former Queensland Corrective Services Officer Neil Newman was fined $3500 for unlawfully accessing confidential information about prisoners.

In January 2019, a former senior probation and parole officer pleaded guilty to one charge of Computer hacking and misuse (section 408E(1) and (2) of the Criminal Code) for conduct between June 2012 and November 2017.

In November 2019 Chris Loft, the former Mayor of the Fraser Coast Regional Council (FCRC), was convicted of misconduct in relation to public office as a result of a Crime and Corruption Commission corruption investigation. He was sentenced to 12 months...

Professor Suzanne Miller, former Chief Scientist and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Queensland Museum, was convicted of fraud and sentenced to three years imprisonment, to be suspended after three months, as a result of a Crime and Corruption Commission...

On 30 April 2021, Lawrence Ray Baillie, 58, the former Fleet Manager at Flinders Shire Council (FSC), pleaded guilty in the Townsville District Court to fraud and using information obtained as a local government employee to directly gain an advantage for...