Melbourne printer F&M Printing has been raided by Victorian police over the recent Victorian Labor printing rort scandal, according to The Age.
The Age reports the printer was raided by independent broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission investigators, who seizied items from FM Printing. It was accused of being involved in the alleged allowances scam alongside Labor MP Khalil Eideh.
[Related: Victorian ALP in printing rort claim]
Speaking to ProPrint F&M Printing says it has done nothing wrong.
It was reported in early September a group of ALP MP’s and printing firms ordered a certain amount of print products but quoted more on the invoices. These invoices were then sent to parliament with the politicians allegedly being reimbursed, using the money for memberships and branch-stacking in the Victorian western suburbs.
MP and upper house deputy president Khalil Eideh has been linked to this scandal, with reports saying he will stand down from the next election. According to the Herald Sun Eideh is linked to F&M Printing.
The Victorian Parliament is also investigating the claims some of the printing budgets for MPS were put into ALP memberships.
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