Opposition leader vows to chase up ‘potentially criminal’ behaviour from Andrews government

John Pesutto has vowed to pursue explosive claims from the former IBAC commissioner that the Andrews government had effectively launched revenge attacks on the state’s anti-corruption watchdog in a bid to block it from doing its job.

The state opposition leader said it was potentially criminal behaviour.

“I know we’ve become accustomed to corruption allegations around this government, but this is next level and we have to do something about it,” Mr Pesutto told Neil Mitchell.

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Stephen Charles KC sat on the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court between 1995 and 2006 and was chair of the former Baillieu government’s expert panel on IBAC.

He told Neil Mitchell it was “very much” a corruption of the system, if true.

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