'Serious failures': flawed COVID-19 payments covered up

Premier disappointed by COVID grants cover-up

A state's integrity watchdog has found public officials withheld news of $257 million in flawed COVID-19 business grants.

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'Serious failures': flawed COVID-19 payments covered up

A state's integrity watchdog has found public officials withheld information on an estimated $257 million in flawed COVID-19 business grants.

COVID-19 grants paid to 9,000 ineligible Victorian businesses

An IBAC investigation has found senior public officers failed to warn the minister that hundreds of millions of dollars in business support grants were being paid to ineligible businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

$285m COVID cover-up exposed by whistleblowers

Two senior bureaucrats attempted to hide government grants being incorrectly paid to more than 9000 ineligible businesses, according to a new IBAC report.

Vic public servants covered up more than $250m Covid grant loss blunder — and got away with it

More than 9000 businesses landed more than a quarter of a billion dollars in state Covid grants they were never entitled to, a damning IBAC report has revealed.