After losing several major cases and being hammered by an inquiry, the Crime and Corruption Commission’s future hinges on two more high-profile cases this year.
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A SACKED Ipswich councillor says he backs calls by the head of the Local Government Association of Queensland for an independent inquiry into the state’s corruption watchdog after charges were dropped against dismissed Logan councillors this week.
Fraud charges against eight former Logan councillors were dropped two years after they were first charged and then subsequently dismissed by then-local government minister Stirling Hinchliffe.
The Director of Public Prosecutions decided on Thursday not to continue with the prosecution of the councillors. LGAQ CEO Greg Hallam.
Former Mayor Luke Smith still faces other criminal offences resulting from a Crime and Corruption Commission probe with these matters still before the court.
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Subscriber only CORRUPT former Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale could run for office again once he is released from jail. The 69-year-old was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison in September for more than 30 criminal charges but is eligible for parole in October next year. The long list of offences he was found guilty of included official corruption, sexual assault, fraud, perjury and the unlawful possession of sex drugs. Paul Pisasale resigns as mayor at St Andrew’s Ipswich Private Hospital in 2017. In his 13-year stint as the city s mayor, Mr Ipswich was a hugely popular figure and his last election victory in 2016 was a landslide with 83.45 per cent of the popular vote.