Prosecutors have dropped more than 500 charges against the alleged accomplice of corrupt WA public servant Paul Whyte, who over a decade defrauded taxpayers of around $22 million in what investigators labelled the nation's single biggest case of public sector fraud.
Jacob Daniel Anthonisz, 46, had been due to stand trial in the Supreme Court in July, but on Friday all 542 corruption charges were dropped after prosecutor Michael Cvetkoski revealed there had been a "breakdown in the understanding" with WA police of what was required to be presented as evidence in the case.
