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Se­nior In­ves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ist

More than $6.5 bil­lion in pub­lic funds was pumped in­to the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) over 15 years–be­tween 2009 and 2023–by the Gov­ern­ment.

A Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion has found that 63 per cent—ap­prox­i­mate­ly $4.1 bil­lion—of CEPEP’s fi­nances has not been ful­ly ac­count­ed for to the pub­lic. The last au­dit sub­mit­ted to Par­lia­ment dates back more than a decade, cov­er­ing fis­cal 2014.