Home Affairs paid companies linked to serious crime allegations: Dennis Richardson

Home Affairs paid companies linked to serious crime allegations: Dennis Richardson

Companies linked to suspected arms and drug smuggling, busting sanctions on Iran, corruption and bribery won billions of dollars worth of government contracts amid systemic failures to adequately vet who was being paid to run the nation’s multi-billion dollar asylum seeker offshore processing regime.

Australia paid companies linked to suspected drug and weapons smuggling to run offshore detention, review finds

Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says scathing report shows offshore processing ‘used as a slush fund by suspected criminals’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastContractors suspected of drug smuggling and weapons trafficking were handed multimillion dollar contracts due to a lack of due diligence in the administration of Australia’s offshore detention regime, a scathing report has found.The home affairs min…