Anti-corruption boss and Gold Coast mayor face-off over Logan Council drama

 The head of Queensland’s corruption watchdog has hit back at Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate, after Tate accused the Corruption and Crime Commission of “peeing on people’s lives”.

Tate’s comments came after fraud charges against seven Logan councillors were dropped on Wednesday.

The councillors had been sacked after the CCC made the charges in 2019. But on Wednesday, according to CCC chair Alan MacSporran, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) “considered that there were no longer reasonable prospects of the fraud charges relating to the Logan councillors being successfully prosecuted”.

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