South Australian MP Troy Bell abused his position as an Education Department employee to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars meant to help vulnerable high school students and used it to fund property investments and pay debts, a court has been told. The independent member for Mount Gambier is facing trial in the SA District Court after pleading not guilty to 20 counts of theft and six counts of dishonestly dealing with documents, allegedly committed between 2009 and 2013.
He had received those funds on behalf of two not-for-profits, the South-East Education and Training Association and the Limestone Coast Education and Training Association. “He didn’t use them in the manner he was obliged, but instead dishonestly dealt with those monies by moving them into personal accounts,” Litster said. Bell may have been motivated to steal because he was becoming increasingly financially ambitious, she said.
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