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Police corruption: a malignant
Michael Williams, Contributor
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton
Now why would an article responding to the confessions of a corrupt police officer solicit one of the most often repeated of quotations above? Simply put, Jamaican police officers operate in a manner which suggests and implies that they have absolute power to do what they will, to whomever they will, at any time they will.
Anecdotal evidence suggests - and every second person has a story - that our policemen and women misbehave almost with impu... Read more
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Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Quee
06 April 2007
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Detective to admit fraud guilt
THE suspended fraud squad detective Con Kostakidis will plead guilty to fraud over an investment property in Castle Hill, a court was told yesterday.
Kostakidis, 45, of Padstow, has been accused of writing a letter falsely claiming to employ a colleague's wife at the Oxford Street cafe he was running so that the couple could get a home loan.
A document tendered in Downing Centre Local Court showed the Police Integrity Commission recorded telephone conversations with his fraud squad colleague Rafiq Ahmed from late 2005.
During that time Ahmed, 37, told Kostakidis he and his wife, Aisha Rafiq Ahmed, needed a home loan for an investment property, it said.
In March 2006, Ahmed signed a contract to buy a $587,500 property in Castle Hill. A few days later he gave Kostakidis details of his income for a home loan application.
Kostakidis said it might be difficult to service the loan because Ahmed's wife was not working and suggested Ahmed work in the Red Lounge Cafe. The cafe, near Taylor Square, has recently closed.
He referred the application to a Commonwealth Bank loan officer he knew. The officer said this was "a sign of good faith" because Kostakidis wanted to set himself up as a mortgage broker.
Company records show that in May 2006 Kostakidis became a part-owner of a business called Auslend Home Loans.
A week later Kostakidis told the bank that Aisha Ahmed had been the cafe's head waitress, earning about $950 a week. Her tax records, obtained by the Police Integrity Commission, showed she had not declared any income in those years, the document stated.
In July 2006, Ahmed asked the commission if he was being investigated. The following day, the commission alleges, he called Kostakidis to tell him. Both were charged in December.
Yesterday, Kostakidis's lawyer, Chris Kapsis, told the court his client would plead guilty. He is due to be sentenced next month.
Kostakidis has been a police officer since 1989. He recently worked in the fraud squad and in Strike Force Enoggera, which investigated the Cronulla riots.
Ahmed, an officer for seven years, has not yet entered a plea. He will also reappear in court next month.
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