Victorian ministers breached codes in ‘shocking’ misuse of public funds to fuel branch stacking, Ibac finds

Adem Somyurek in parliament. Ibac and the Victorian ombudsman have found that the former Labor minister and his colleague Marlene Kairouz committed multiple breaches of codes of conduct but not necessarily criminal offences. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Two former Daniel Andrews government ministers breached parliamentary codes of conduct when they misused public funds to fuel a vast branch-stacking operation, an integrity investigation has found.

But the investigation by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission and the Victorian ombudsman found there was not enough proof the former ministers had committed criminal offences to recommend prosecution