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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

On 15 February 2021, William Alan Shuck (Shuck), a former Infrastructure and Operations Manager at Racing Queensland (RQ), pleaded guilty to fraud in the Brisbane District Court in relation to contract procurement in five separate contracts awarded by RQ...

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...