Queensland Premier David Crisafulli failed to declare a $200,000 payout to liquidators pursuing an insolvent trading claim against him, a parliamentary committee has found.
The failure of Mr Crisafulli to list the liability on his MP register of interests was “careless”, the bipartisan ethics committee found in a report tabled on Friday.
But the committee absolved Mr Crisafulli of any contempt of parliament, saying it could not find adequate evidence that he had knowingly failed to disclose the payout tied to a private training company he had run.
Mr Crisafulli maintained the report had cleared him of wrongdoing but refused to answer how he had paid for the $200,000.
“I’ve met my obligations,” he said at least four times.
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