Bureaucrat faked invoices to cover tracks

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published June 3, 2015

A high-ranking Victorian bureaucrat accused of stealing $2.5 million from needy schools did "homework" creating fake letters and invoices to cover his tracks.

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