{
  "id": 5306264,
  "title": "‘Corrosive’: Ex-V/Line boss jailed over corrupt contracts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/corrosive-ex-v-line-boss-jailed-over-corrupt-contracts-5306264",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T10:43:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Age",
    "slug": "the-age",
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/corrosive-ex-v-line-boss-jailed-over-corrupt-contracts-20260903-p60ub3.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A former V/Line chief executive, James Pinder, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail for misconduct in public office and receiving secret commissions. He must serve one year and nine months before becoming eligible for parole.\n\nPinder was found to have established an undeclared relationship with Transclean boss George Haritos and corruptly received secret commissions. He was sacked as V/Line CEO after appearing before a public inquiry into the matter.\n\nFour other people were also sentenced for their roles in a corruption scandal involving the awarding of multi-million-dollar cleaning contracts within V/Line and Metro to Transclean. The contracts, initially valued at $40 million, were varied to more than $54 million by the end of March 2019, according to ABC News AU.",
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      {
        "outlet": "ABC News AU",
        "title": "V/Line CEO jailed and facing deportation over secret commissions",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/v-line-ceo-jailed-and-facing-deportation-over-secret-commissions",
        "published": "2026-09-03T09:36:21.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "‘Corrosive’: Ex-V/Line boss jailed over corrupt contracts",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/corrosive-ex-v-line-boss-jailed-over-corrupt-contracts",
        "published": "2026-09-03T10:43:30.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}