{"id":3910,"date":"2017-12-06T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whistleblowingservice.com.au\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:20:53","slug":"plutus-payroll-scandal-may-have-tangled-major-government-agencies-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/2017\/12\/06\/plutus-payroll-scandal-may-have-tangled-major-government-agencies-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Plutus Payroll scandal may have tangled major government agencies: Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At what point did someone say &#8220;Do we have a Whistle Blowing Service?<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Federal Police alleges a percentage of the funds that should have been paid in tax\u00a0was skimmed by a syndicate and spent on lavish lifestyle expenses in a white collar fraud racket.<\/p>\n<p>Finance has also confirmed it engaged\u00a0seven contractors through external companies that had a relationship with\u00a0Plutus\u00a0Payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Following\u00a0a Senate estimates hearing in May, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet\u00a0told senators it engaged 23 contractors\u00a0who used Plutus\u00a0Payroll for payment while doing government work.<\/p>\n<p>PM&amp;C said\u00a0it engaged the contractors who used Plutus through five labour hire companies:\u00a0Programmed Professionals,\u00a0First People Recruitment Solutions, Dynamo IT, Hays Recruitment and\u00a0Clicks &amp; Programmed.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE;\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/news\/australia\/plutus-payroll-scandal-may-have-tangled-major-government-agencies-finance\/ar-BBGfLAZ?li=AAabC8j&amp;ocid=spartandhp<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At what point did someone say &#8220;Do we have a Whistle Blowing Service? The Australian Federal Police alleges a percentage of the funds that should have been paid in tax\u00a0was skimmed by a syndicate and spent on lavish lifestyle expenses in a white collar fraud racket. Finance has also confirmed it engaged\u00a0seven contractors through external [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,21,25,30,46],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-fraud","tag-industry","tag-legal","tag-politicians","tag-whistle-blowing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/o-PONZI-SCHEME-facebook-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publicinterestdisclosure.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}