{"id":355472,"date":"2025-12-18T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:57:07","slug":"public-officers-facing-corruption-charges-over-alleged-secret-payments-for-medical-devices-in-public-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355472\/","title":{"rendered":"Public officers facing corruption charges over alleged secret payments for medical devices in public hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Five people will face criminal charges over alleged corruption following an &#8220;extensive&#8221; Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigation into medical devices at public hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It will be alleged the public officers accepted secret payments from sales representatives in return for the use of the devices, and failed to declare conflicts of interest to Queensland Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement on Thursday, the CCC said it had conducted Investigation Barzona in cooperation with the Queensland Office of the Health Ombudsman (OHO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The CCC said four people had been charged with a range of offences, including fraud, official corruption, and misconduct in relation to their dealings within Queensland Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Three will appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on January 15 and one will appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on January 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An arrest warrant has been issued for a fifth person, the CCC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people will face criminal charges over alleged corruption following an &#8220;extensive&#8221; Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,36619,194843,194845,194844,44,25277,8920],"class_list":["post-355472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-magistrates-court","tag-corruption-charges","tag-health-ombudsman","tag-investigation-barzona","tag-news","tag-ombudsman","tag-queensland-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}