Vic: DPP to check Patrick chief s evidence

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-1999
Vic: DPP to check Patrick chief s evidence

The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has referred evidence given by Patrick
stevedores chairman CHRIS CORRIGAN during the waterfront dispute to the federal director of
public prosecutions.

The Age newspaper reports the commission has raised questions with the DPP about the
evidence given by Mr CORRIGAN in February 1998 concerning his financial involvement in the
controversial Dubai training exercise.

It's believed the former registrar of the commission, MICHAEL KELLY, notified the DPP late
last year of the concern of vice president IAIN ROSS following financial and documentary
evidence presented in affidavits by Mr CORRIGAN'S business associates last May.

The revelations come a year to the day after Mr CORRIGAN'S company, Patrick stevedores,
locked out its Maritime Union of Australia workforce and tried to replace them with trained,
non-union labor.

A spokeswoman for Patrick says Mr CORRIGAN isn't aware of any concerns in relation to the
evidence he had given.

He says Mr CORRIGAN stands by his evidence to the commission.

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KEYWORD: WATERFRONT DPP (MELBOURNE)

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