The Chief Minister’s Investigation Unit has called in the police over the leaking of the ACT health budget.
Details of the Budget were published in The Canberra Times on Sunday.
Two police officers arrived at üThe Canberra Times with a search warrant directed at me and the Federal Capital Press yesterday.
The warrant said sought all documents, dairy notes and fax records pertaining to the ACT health budget and all documents or faxes to or from the ACT Health Department or the office of the Minister for Health, Wayne Berry.
The warrant stated that it was pursuant to an investigation of a breach of Section 10(1) of the ACT Crimes Against the Government Act. That section provides for two years’ jail for the unauthorised leaking of official information by officers and former officers of the ACT Government Service.
A spokeswoman for Mr Berry said the Minister viewed the matter seriously.
The police searched my (very messy) desk and rubbish bin and took some documents and gave me a receipt for them. The documents were cut-up segments of a fax received by The Canberra Times with no identifying marks.
They asked questions about the origin of the fax which I refused to answer.
The police officers wouldn’t let me take a copy of the search warrant.
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