The Age investigation into Labor Party branch stacking in Victoria continues in an Age report on July 16th, 2020 with further questionable governance behaviours from some involved being alleged and described.
ALP Branch-Stacking documents Dumped in Bin behind Chicken Shop
The Age investigation into Labor Party branch stacking in Victoria continues in an Age report on July 16th, 2020 with further questionable governance behaviours from some involved being alleged and described.
It is alleged that boxes of documents relating to branch stacking were removed by a staff member and taken to Ms Kairouz’s garage
It has been alleged by the Age newspaper in an article dated July 16th, 2020, that documents detailing allegations of branch stacking, forgery of signatures, and corruption, were removed from an ALP staffer’s garage and dumped in a bin behind a chicken shop in Sydenham. This apparently occurred three weeks after the announcement of investigations by IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman into alleged political corruption linked to branch stacking earlier this year.
It is reported by the Age, that amongst the documents discovered was a transcript showing an alleged branch stacker currently aligned with the faction controlled by Mr Somyurek and Ms Kairouz, discussing forging of signatures of ALP members. It is stated that these particular documents are several years old and that Somyurek and Kairouz were not involved in the dumping of these documents and that they were not on the transcript.
The documents are described in detail by the Age article and cover a period between 2000 and 2013. They include many explosive allegations and seem to provide further evidence to suggest that all the decisions made by both Somyurek and Kairouz should be looked at again.
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