A report into the handling of a redundancy payment in the ACT Chief Minister’s Department revealed no fraud or criminal conduct, the head of the department, Bill Harris, has announced.
The case involved an officer who had allegedly helped arrange a large redundancy payment for a sick workmate. The workmate died for months later and the officer inherited the money.
Mr Harris said last week that the report recommended the officer should be counselled about the need to declare possible conflicts of interest. This had been done. The documents had been examined by the Director of Public Prosecutions who had come to the same conclusion.
The report had made suggestions about improvements for guidelines and procedures used for handling redundancy payments. These would be sent to the Auditor-General.