2021-12-13 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   13 DECEMBER 2021




                                        Page 39 of 65

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                13 DECEMBER 2021

                     mislead or misrepresent a position or hide wrongdoing
                 e   misuse of position by staff in order to gain some form of financial advantage
                 e   misuse of cab charge vouchers i.e. not using them for travelling on official business
             External fraud examples include, but not limited to:
                  e   customers and service providers providing false invoices for payment
                  e   individuals creating a false vendor in order to request payment from Council for goods and/or
                      services that were not provided (false invoicing)
                  e   customers deliberately claiming benefits from government programs that they are knowingly
                      not eligible for
                  e   making false statements or altering signatures or other information and materials so as to
                      misleador misrepresent a position or hide wrongdoing
                  e   false applications for funding, grants or other applications
                  e   misuse of grant or community funding
                  e   individuals making false declarations or fraudulently completing forms (e.g. court forms,
                      statutory declarations)
                  e   failure to remove a former employee from the payroll system and whose wages are deposited
                      into an external fraudsters bank account
                  e   lodgement of a false claim against council e.g. workers compensation or public liability
                  e   customers obtaining false identities or licences
                  e   duplication of companies or businesses in order to process fraudulent payments
                  e   creation of a ‘ghost’ employee whose wages are deposited into the fraudsters bank account
                  e   theft of cash or assets (including plant and equipment)
                  e   destroying or removing records without approval for personal gain or to conceal fraudulent
                      activity
                  e   theft of intellectual property or other information
             What is corruption?
             Corruption is dishonest activity by a Council employee which is contrary to the interest of the
             organisation or its customers and abuses their position of trust in order to achieve some personal gain
             or advantage for them or for another person or entity.> Essentially, corruption involves a breach of trust
             in the performance of official duties.*
             An incident of corruption may include an element of fraud or deception.
             Accepting benefits which may be perceived to conflict with public duties, or using information obtained
             from work for personal benefit is corruption.
              Under the Crime and Corruption Act 2007 (CC Act), fraudulent and corrupt conduct by Council
             employees falls within the category of “corrupt conduct”. Under the CC Act, “corruption” refers to corrupt
             conduct in the Queensland public sector, which includes local governments. Accordingly, the term
             “corrupt conduct” is defined under section 15 of the CC Act as being conduct of a person, regardless
             of whether the person holds or held an appointment, that —

             3 Australian Standard, AS 8001-2008 — Fraud and Corruption Control
             * Crime and Corruption Commission, Fraud and Corruption Control: Best Practice Guide, 2018, p. 1.
                                                                                                          Page 3

                                                                                                          Page 39 of 65