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Two Sydney local councillors under investigation by the corruption watchdog have helped overturn a resolution calling on them to stand aside.
Councillors Con Hindi and Vince Badalati, of Georges River Council, both voted on Monday to rescind a motion regarding the Independent Commission Against Corruption probe against themselves, after multiple other councillors said the men needed to be afforded due process.
Labor councillor Vince Badalati, left, and Liberal councillor Con Hindi.
Cr Hindi, from the Liberal Party, and Cr Badalati, of Labor, were named in a November 2019 letter from the ICAC that was read out by an external lawyer during a council meeting last week.
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A Sydney council has called on two of its councillors to stand down after they were named as the subjects of a corruption watchdog investigation prompted by articles published in
The Sydney Morning Herald.
Georges River Liberal councillor Con Hindi and Labor councillor Vince Badalati were identified in a November 2019 letter from the Independent Commission Against Corruption, tabled and read out during a public council meeting on Monday night.
Labor councillor Vince Badalati, left, and Liberal councillor Con Hindi.
The men flew to China in 2016 with a property developer behind a rezoning proposal and a planned 11-storey tower block in their time on the former Hurstville Council, which preceded the amalgamated Georges River Council. Both men have denied any wrongdoing.