Oh those pesky contractors. Here’s a case making some waves in Australia because it involves a scandal and failure to run background checks. Natasha Wallace reports:
It took a former prostitute just a few days to pilfer sensitive computer files and find what she wanted: the nine-page police interview of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld.
The breach of security by Marie Christos, who was linked to the Einfeld court case, occurred while she worked as a typist at APT Transcriptions, a company with lucrative contracts with the police and justice departments and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Ms Christos became embroiled in the Einfeld case after she found documents in the bin of her former lover and Einfeld’s then solicitor, Michael Ryan.
A Herald investigation recently revealed that APT Transcriptions was awarded these contracts despite the owner’s father, Paul Devine, being a former detective who the ICAC had found guilty of corruption over a huge racket in confidential personal records 18 years ago.
Read more in the Sydney Morning Herald.