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Article: NSW: Mobile phone text messages feature in corruption inquiry
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2002
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NSW: Mobile phone text messages feature in corruption inquiry
By Anthony Stavrinos
SYDNEY, May 2 AAP - A corruption inquiry today continued to follow
a trail of mobile
phone text messages allegedly used by key players in a Sydney council
cash-for-building-approval
scandal.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is holding
public hearings into
allegations that councillors and officers from Rockdale City Council,
in Sydney's south,
attempted to solicit or receive payment to support development applications.
Rockdale Councillor Andrew Smyrnis and alleged go-between Tony
Retsos have been accused
by ICAC of soliciting hundreds of thousands of ...