Ipswich mayor Andrew Antoniolli has been charged with seven counts of fraud by Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission relating to the purchase of charity auction items using Council money.
Cr Antoniolli has only been mayor since August 2017, when he ran on a platform of “accountability and transparency” in response to then-mayor Paul Pisasale being charged with a range of offences including corruption and abuse of office.
12 Ipswich City Councillors are now facing criminal allegations in the wake of the CCC’s investigations, which began in May 2017 when Mr Pisasale was found at Melbourne’s domestic airport with $50,000 cash.