Cleaning company raided by IBAC investigators amid transport probe

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A cleaning company contracted by both V/Line and Metro has been raided by anti-corruption watchdog investigators, as the state’s anti-corruption watchdog edges closer to public hearings into alleged corruption in the state’s transport industry.

under an expanded cleaning regime funded by the Andrews government. The company has held cleaning contracts with Metro since 2010, with V/Line since 2018 and currently carries out security work for Yarra Trams after losing its cleaning contract in 2018.

Multiple sources in the industry say the pair are close friends after working together at Metro, before Mr Pinder was poached by V/Line. Mr Bollas reported to Mr Pinder when he was general manager for rolling stock between 2012 and 2016.www.metrotrains.com.au About two years after Mr Pinder joined V/Line in 2016, the agency awarded Transclean its cleaning contracts under a tender process, dumping a long-running contractor.The dumped contractor, Borg Corporate Property Services, is suingWell-placed sources said Mr Pinder wanted to boost the quality of cleaning across V/Line and aimed to raise the network's hygiene standards to match the suburban network and operations overseas.

However, Metro did not renew the company's contract to clean its stations in 2017. It continued the company's smaller, rolling stock cleaning contract.about the raid, Transclean's general manager Nelson Aguila said the business had an open door policy to any investigation.

 

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