Former superintendent charged over attempts to influence investigations
A former police superintendent charged with misconduct in public office will front court on Monday, more than a year after officers from the state’s corruption watchdog raided his home on the Mornington Peninsula.
Paul Rosenblum is accused of trying to influence police investigations during his time with Victoria Police, including in a number of senior roles related to procurement and the awarding of police contracts to third parties.
Mr Rosenblum, who recently left the force, is also a former Yarra Ranges police inspector and represented the force as a security adviser at the Australian Security Summit in 2018.
Investigators from the state's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) descended on Mr Rosenblum’s bayside home in June 2018, where they seized a number of items including firearms and computers as part of Operation Dawson.
Paul Rosenblum is accused of trying to influence police investigations during his time with Victoria Police, including in a number of senior roles related to procurement and the awarding of police contracts to third parties.
Mr Rosenblum, who recently left the force, is also a former Yarra Ranges police inspector and represented the force as a security adviser at the Australian Security Summit in 2018.
Investigators from the state's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) descended on Mr Rosenblum’s bayside home in June 2018, where they seized a number of items including firearms and computers as part of Operation Dawson.
Last week they charged the former superintendent
with misconduct in public office following a lengthy investigation.
He’s accused of accessing information from internal Victoria Police
systems and contacting those involved in investigations that were
unrelated to his role.
The Police Association is understood to be funding his legal defence.
Those individuals include 57-year-old Sergeant Rosa Catherine Rossi who last week pleaded guilty to 10 fraud offences, including dishonestly obtaining six properties and rorting Centrelink.
Rossi accessed the police database, LEAP, without authorisation and in 2016 deceived locksmiths to fraudulently take possession of houses in Malvern East, Chadstone, Brooklyn and three rural properties in Willaura, about 230 kilometres west of Melbourne.
Her colleague, Inspector David Manly, will return to court next month after recently admitting he lied under oath to IBAC investigators after being caught with a mobile phone that he claimed to have destroyed.
The corruption watchdog also charged other
senior police officers this year including Commander Stuart Bateson,
51, who is accused of disclosing "restricted matters".
Source: theage.com.au
Last
week IBAC revealed the agency had charged 16 people with various
offences during the 2018-19 financial year under various state and
Commonwealth statutes.
Rossi accessed the police database, LEAP, without authorisation and in 2016 deceived locksmiths to fraudulently take possession of houses in Malvern East, Chadstone, Brooklyn and three rural properties in Willaura, about 230 kilometres west of Melbourne.
Her colleague, Inspector David Manly, will return to court next month after recently admitting he lied under oath to IBAC investigators after being caught with a mobile phone that he claimed to have destroyed.
Manly,
a married 74-year-old, had used the mobile phone to contact Rossi over a
period of more than six years and hid the phone when IBAC officers
attended his Lara home.
Source: theage.com.au
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