Is Dirty Bill a Goner This TIme
AFP raids Australian Workers' Union headquarters as part of Shorten and GetUp investigation
The investigation relates to whether donations made to activist group GetUp and to federal Labor campaigns were authorised under union rules.
In a statement, the ROC confirmed it launched the sudden raids because it was concerned evidence could be "concealed or destroyed".
"Since the investigation commenced, the ROC received information which raised reasonable grounds for suspecting that documents relevant to this investigation may be on the premises of the AWU…and that those documents may be being interfered with (by being concealed or destroyed)."
The ABC understands the payments under investigation include $100,000 paid by the AWU National Office to GetUp in 2006.
Another is a $25,000 payment by the AWU National Office to Bill Shorten's election campaign in the Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong in 2007, and two other payments to campaigns in the seats of Petrie (Queensland) and Stirling (WA).
This Government are getting more fascist every day -- wanting to shut off the ABC & SBS and anything else that goes against them -- while they line their own pockets and spend OUR money on all their pleasures and outings -- how about we raid the bloody banks and see what rorts they are into and also how much this Government are being paid by the Chinese and other foreign companies and selling out the entire country!