Victoria Police are investigating claims a HelloWorld employee wrongly accessed data linked to reports a federal minister received free flights from the travel company.
When the allegations were made in February, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said he thought he had paid for $2700 in flights to Singapore for a family holiday.
HelloWorld – which had won a $21 million federal government contract before Senator Cormann’s flights were booked in July 2017 – denied the trip for the senator, his wife and two children was free.
However, Senator Cormann’s credit card had never been charged for the flights. When the issue came to light, the Finance Minister said an administrative error was to blame.
“At no point, until approached by the media yesterday, did I receive any reminders that the payment due remained outstanding, even though I now understand it appeared as outstanding and unresolved on the internal HelloWorld system since that time,” Senator Cormann said.
“The payment was processed immediately once it became apparent to me that it remained outstanding.”
On Wednesday, Victoria Police reportedly interviewed two former HelloWorld staff about the leak as part of an investigation into the issue.
“The fraud and extortion squad is currently investigating allegations an employee accessed unauthorised data from a private company,” a spokeswoman said.
Victoria Police said it had a responsibility to investigate “all reports of crime”.
-with AAP
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