Former premier Brian Burke Committed to Stand Trial on Corruption Charges
Friday May 1, 2009
Former Perth premier Brian Burke faces five charges of giving false and misleading evidence to a Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) hearing and one charge of disclosing official secrets.
The charges came out of a lobbying event that Burke carried out about a proposed development at Smiths Beach in Perth's south, land renozing at Whitby, southeast of Perth, as well as around the pearling industry in the north of Western Australia.
Burke was committed to stand trial at a two-week hearing beginning on 30 November on the five charges of giving false evidence. He was ordered to appear in the same court on 17 June on charge of disclosing official secrets.
Burke says in Perth Now he will vigorously defend all the charges.
