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...

A former Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) Inspector was jailed for three years, to serve six months, for official corruption involving procurement fraud as a result of a joint investigation conducted by the CCC, QFES and the QPS.

To date Operation Front has resulted in eight elected officials from Logan City Council being charged with 14 serious criminal offences.

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 CCC corruption investigation.

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 CCC corruption investigation. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, to be suspended after...

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 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...

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