The Vitab inquiry finished taking evidence yesterday and inquirer Professor Dennis Pearce is expected to give his report to the ACT Government in a month or so.
Yesterday the inquiry took evidence in private from the present and former heads of the Victorian TAB.
Professor Pearce is inquiring into the contract with the Vanuatu-based Vitab and ACTTAB under which ACTTAB gave computer access to the multi-state super-pool and other services in return for a percentage of turnover, enabling Vitab to run phone and other betting on Australian races. He is also inquiring into why the Victorian TAB terminated it super-pool arrangements with the ACT.
The contract led to a successful Assembly no-confidence motion against Sports Minister Wayne Berry last month, causing him to resign.
In recent days, attention has been directed to Victoria with questions about whether Victoria attempted to undermine Vitab because the Victorian TAB has an agency in Vanuatu that competes with Vitab and questions about the integrity of some of the people connected with Victoria’s Vanuatu operation.