V/Line CEO jailed and facing deportation over secret commissions
James Pinder is sentenced for misconduct in awarding a multi-million dollar cleaning contract.
Former V/Line chief executive James Pinder has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for misconduct in public office and receiving secret commissions. Four others involved in the corruption scandal, which saw the awarding of multi-million-dollar cleaning contracts to Transclean, also received sentences. Pinder, who must serve a year and nine months before parole eligibility, faces deportation to England after his prison term.
The $40 million in initial cleaning contracts and subsequent $14 million in variations were part of the scheme uncovered by an IBAC investigation using video surveillance, telephone intercepts, and hidden cameras.
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