Corruption and Crime Commission
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The Corruption and Crime Commission is a permanent investigative commission established by the Government of Western Australia in 2003, largely as a result of the findings of a royal commission into the state's police service. Its role is to investigate public corruption.
The Commission came to national attention in 2006 when it was responsible for discovering that then-Small Business Minister Norm Marlborough had lied to it about his dealings with disgraced former Premier turned lobbyist Brian Burke. The resulting scandal resulted in the end of Marlborough's 20-year career and the forced resignation of Burke from the governing Labor Party.
The Commission also came to national attention in 2005 when it was revealled that acting Commissioner Moira Raynor used information she obtained through her position with the Commission to tip-off her old friend Laurie Marquet not to use his phone, which she knew was being tapped as part of an invesigation into corruption.
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