维多利亚州公共交通网络V/Line的清洁合同腐败案近日宣判，前首席执行官詹姆斯·平德因公职不当行为被判入狱2年8个月，其中不假释期为1年9个月1。Transclean公司联合主任乔治·哈里托斯因串谋向平德提供秘密佣金，被判刑2年3个月，最低刑期为1年5个月1。
平德在2018年4月至2020年8月期间非法获利330万澳元1，通过收受贿赂帮助友人的清洁公司获得超5400万澳元的V/Line清洁合同1。这笔非法所得包括一笔100万澳元的贷款，用于支付威廉斯敦住房的定金，以及来自相关人士的220万澳元转账1。监控视频曾记录下哈里托斯将装有1万澳元现金的白色信封放入平德车内的场景1。
法官在宣判时评价这起腐败案具有"腐蚀"性质，对公共信任造成了侵害，并警告称其"转移性"影响导致诚实承包商感到必须以不诚实方式竞争1。
A former chief executive of Victoria's public transport network has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for misconduct in public office stemming from a corruption scheme involving lucrative cleaning contracts 1. James Pinder, who headed V/Line, unlawfully obtained 3.3 million Australian dollars between April 2018 and August 2020 by accepting bribes to secure contracts worth more than 54 million dollars for a cleaning company connected to associates 1.
George Haritos, a co-director at Transclean, received a sentence of two years and three months for conspiracy to provide secret commissions in relation to the same scheme 1. The corruption involved Haritos being captured on hidden camera placing a white envelope containing 10,000 Australian dollars into Pinder's vehicle, while another associate transferred 220,000 Australian dollars directly to Pinder, including a 100,000 dollar loan used toward a Williamstown property deposit 1.
The court found the conduct deeply troubling, with the judge characterizing it as "corrosive" of public trust and possessing a "transmissible" quality that pressured honest contractors to compete through dishonest means 1. Pinder's non-parole period was set at one year and nine months, while Haritos faces a minimum term of one year and five months 1.
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