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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:23 pm
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There was a previous round of rail rorting exposed at ICAC a while back but I can't find any threads on the subject. Another example of high level corruption at RailCorp has been exposed at the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
SMH: Rail exec accused of $1m fraud
Tele: RailCorp's Guy Hetman pockets from Sage Civil Engineering
| SMH's Linton Besser wrote: | A senior RailCorp manager has been accused of defrauding the NSW Government of more than $1.1 million in another contracting scam to rock the NSW railways.
In a resumption of a wide ranging inquiry, the Independent Commission Against Corruption alleged this morning that Guy Hetman, an acting program delivery manager in RailCorp's infrastructure division, received at least $106,000 in secret commissions paid by the director of Sage Civil Engineering Pty Ltd, Domenic Murdocca. |
If/when more rorts are exposed, could be keep it all together in this thread?
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Speed
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:26 pm
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Anyway, he's denying it..
| Quote: | Mr Hetman, who is currently suspended from his position as a civil engineer at RailCorp, allegedly allocated more than $1.1 million worth of work to Sage Civil Engineering, of which his close friend Domenic Murdocca is a director.
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The hearing was told Mr Hetman set up a company called GRT Consulting on May 4, 2005, changing the name to Urban Professionals on November 7, 2007,
Ms Ronalds said some of the payments received by Mr Hetman in return for awarding work to Sage had been disguised as payments to GRT Consulting.
"Mr Hetman submitted invoices to Sage which were designed to convince any persons investigating them that he had performed genuine work for Sage," she said.
"I anticipate that the evidence will show that no such work was performed.
"Further, there is an inference that prior to May 2005, Mr Hetman received cash payments from Sage and that setting up GRT Consulting was a way of addressing his concerns that this corrupt arrangement may be uncovered."
Asked by Ms Ronalds if GRT had been set up to launder commissions from Sage, Mr Hetman replied: "No".
It is also alleged that Mr Hetman had landscaping work at his home done by Sage, but paid for by RailCorp. |
http://news.smh.com.au/railcorp-man-denies-laundering-payments/20080317-1zx4.html
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zero
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:49 pm
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in my opinion, this is what this guy will do.
at first he'll deny. then he won't remember, finally he'll claim incompetence and having a poor little manager outsmarted by the big-bad contractor. When its all done and he gets the boot, he'll sue railcorp for wrongful dismissal and a nice fat golden parachute. Double sized if he manages to drag it all out until election time.
ICAC is saying that they have examples of invoiced, paid for work that was never done. I'd be interested to find out what work it was, as there would be potential criminal neg as well as potential fraud if it was any sort of safeworking system.
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bugmenot
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:32 pm
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| Quote: | | Another example of high level corruption at RailCorp has been exposed at the Independent Commission Against Corruption. |
No, another example of low level corruption by middle managers who are dumb and can't cover their tracks.
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edison
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:41 pm
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Apart from the fact that, as just said above, the d*ckhead hasn't got the brains to cover his tracks, this sort of thing getting the publicity that it does, is not going to help morale and public image one little bit.
The poor, honest, hardworking Railcorp employee, who is doing his/her best to serve the public, is only going to lose respect because the whole of RC is tainted by the deceit of one criminal so-and-so.
End of rant.
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zero
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ramata
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:40 pm
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| edison wrote: | Apart from the fact that, as just said above, the d*ckhead hasn't got the brains to cover his tracks, this sort of thing getting the publicity that it does, is not going to help morale and public image one little bit.
The poor, honest, hardworking Railcorp employee, who is doing his/her best to serve the public, is only going to lose respect because the whole of RC is tainted by the deceit of one criminal so-and-so.
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how dare you! you wouldn't have a bloody clue. the reason the so called smeghead didn't cover up his tracks as you suggested is because there was nothing to bloody cover up as they found yesterday. small minded people such as yourself would believe anything the media would say as you have no life yourself. get your facts right before you speak.
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Speed
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:56 pm
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An article for this afternoon...
| Quote: | Mr Murdocca admitted he paid his RailCorp friend Guy Hetman $106,000 in order to get excavation work.
Mr Hetman earlier this week admitted accepting the bribes in exchange for directing $1.1 million worth of work to Mr Murdocca's company.
Mr Murdocca told the inquiry he knew paying the bribes was wrong but he did not report it."To protect my livelihood, working, you've got to do what you've got to do," he said. |
http://news.smh.com.au/subcontractor-admits-to-railcorp-bribes/20080319-20e8.html
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Speed
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:46 pm
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The inquiry is adjourned but the opposition is making news..
| Quote: | Railcorp misses anti-corruption deadline
April 23, 2008 - 3:13PM
Railcorp has failed to implement key anti-corruption measures within the time frame outlined by NSW Transport Minister John Watkins, the opposition says.
Opposition transport spokeswoman Gladys Berejiklian said the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) had made 41 recommendations for change within the state rail authority in the past 12 months. They related to systemic weaknesses in RailCorp's contract management and processes for authorising and paying invoices, all potential avenues for exploitation by corrupt employees.
"Minister Watkins told the parliament these recommendations would be implemented by April - that hasn't happened," Ms Berejiklian said in a statement. "John Watkins is either not interested in protecting taxpayers' money or too weak to implement the recommendations required to end corruption at RailCorp."
ICAC has conducted a string of investigations into Railcorp, the latest uncovering the alleged corrupt handling of more than $1 million in contracts. That inquiry has been adjourned until May 5.
A government spokesman said Railcorp had not met the deadline, but the majority of the ICAC recommendations were either complete or in the pipeline. "Overall, a substantial number of these recommendations have been completed," the spokesman said. "Of those to be completed, the process for implementation is imminent."
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http://news.smh.com.au/railcorp-misses-anticorruption-deadline/20080423-283c.html
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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:02 pm
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Rail workers used funds as personal ATM, inquiry hears
| Linton Besser wrote: | The public funds of Railcorp had become "a personal ATM" for some workers, the NSW corruption watchdog heard today.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation of RailCorp has already revealed $6 million had been lost to graft. |
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Speed
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:53 pm
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Ice Ice Baby...
| Quote: | Former RailCorp team leader George Laidlaw suspended track machine operator Carlo Araldi from work on August 8 last year after he returned a positive random drug test five days earlier, the Sydney inquiry heard on Tuesday. Mr Araldi was found to have unacceptably high levels of methamphetamine, more commonly called speed, in his system, and was permanently banned from RailCorp.
Despite this, Mr Laidlaw did not remove Mr Araldi's RailCorp work accreditation card and knew he was working under both his own name and the name of his brother, Marcello.
"It was a joke between you and Mr Laidlaw that you were working under your brother's name?" counsel assisting the Independent Commission Against Corruption Inquiry, Chris Ronalds SC, asked Mr Araldi.
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In an intercepted phone call on the morning of January 19 this year, Mr Laidlaw warned Mr Araldi drug testers were due to visit a RailCorp site where he was working, the inquiry heard. He said he would check to see if Mr Araldi's name was on their list. "Alright, I am (on the list). My name has been pulled out of the hat. I gotta go up there. I'll see if your name is up there, right," Mr Laidlaw said in the call. |
http://news.smh.com.au/railcorp-boss-warned-of-drug-tests/20080506-2bb8.html
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Speed
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:08 pm
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I've just found that the Herald has a Railcorp corruption portal with articles and multi-media.
In the main part of the newspaper / website, they summarise what one contractor said:
| Quote: | On July 19 last year, Brett Schliebs, a long-time railway worker, spent eight hours at a Woolloomooloo strip club when he was meant to be supervising an important RailCorp construction project. He even telephoned his boss just before he stepped inside the club, pretending to be on site. ...Telephone intercepts placed Mr Schliebs at the Twin Peeks lingerie restaurant from 12pm until 8pm.
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Yesterday, he admitted the timesheet fraud had continued as a series of phone taps placed him at locations other than work on repeated occasions.
On August 20 last year, Mr Schliebs again billed RailCorp for a day while he was running errands and lunching in Bankstown with his accountant, Youssef "Joe" Madrajat.
Mr Madrajat was called before the commission last year, and admitted regularly handing office envelopes filled with up to $18,000 to a RailCorp manager, in a scam that cost NSW $4 million over three years.
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In one telephone exchange with Nat "the Bob Cat" Severino, a subcontractor, Mr Schliebs was heard authorising the theft of timber sleepers. On July 17 Mr Severino asked: "I was going to load some of these timbers if it's all right." "Yeah, do what you f---ing want with them, mate," Mr Schliebs said. RailCorp sells retired sleepers for extra revenue.
"What authority did you have to authorise Mr Severino to remove some second-hand sleepers?" Ms Ronalds asked. "No authority whatsoever," Mr Schliebs replied.
He was also caught on tape referring to his work at Sandown - a large track reconstruction project - as "my little holiday camp". |
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/railcorp-charged-for-strip-club-visit/2008/05/07/1210131068823.html
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TE2815
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:09 pm
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The RailCorp Drug testing is a farce. Really I should say the enforcement is a farce. I know of one employee who was tested positive, only removed from their position to another position and is now sort of (last I heard) in an office type job overseeing those that they were beneath in grade and pecking order as it were.
Like they say smeg FLOATS TO THE TOP 
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Speed
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 2:54 pm
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Today's article...
| Quote: | Labourer Teheke Toma has told the inquiry into RailCorp by the NSW Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC), that he was bullied by his team leader George Laidlaw and felt he could not disobey him.
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On one occasion when he expressed concerns about signing off on a RailCorp document when he might not have had the authority to do so, Mr Laidlaw had threatened to sack him, he said.
"(Mr Laidlaw said) 'You're only a black so you can get f***ed,'" Mr Toma told the inquiry.
Fearing he had lost his job, Mr Toma then apologised to Mr Laidlaw and continued working in his team, he said.
When he tried to switch to a different team, Mr Laidlaw had found out and told him never to betray him again, he said. |
http://news.smh.com.au/railcorp-worker-intimidated-icac-told/20080514-2e2e.html.
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Speed
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:02 pm
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Criminal charges are being anticipated for a Mr Blackstock, Mr Madrajat and Ms Hughes.
| Quote: | | The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has tabled the first two of its reports from an investigation into bribery and fraud at RailCorp. It also has made findings of corrupt conduct against three other people involved in the scams. The ICAC will seek the DPP's advice as to whether criminal charges should also be filed against these three individuals. |
http://news.smh.com.au/national/railcorp-to-consult-corruption-watchdog-20080813-3ufy.html
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