NSW: Priest admits to falsifying community service orders

AAP General News (Australia)
04-19-2006
NSW: Priest admits to falsifying community service orders

A Sydney Catholic priest has admitted to a corruption inquiry .. he falsified community
service orders for two offenders.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption is investigating allegations that probation
and parole officer MICHAEL ISHAC engaged in corrupt conduct .. in relation to the community
service orders of JOHN TOURNI and BRIAN KHOUZAME.

Father ELIAS KHOURY .. of Saint Nicholas's Antiochian Orthodox Church at Punchbowl
.. says he had wrongly certified that work had been done .. and knows it was a mistake.

He also admitted to lying to the inquiry last month .. when he denied falsifying the documents.

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KEYWORD: ISHAC (SYDNEY)

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