Shakespearean defence 開始する，打ち上げるd against 汚職 調査（する）
Two 重要な 人物／姿／数字s in a 所有物／資産／財産 開発 スキャンダル 診察するd by a 汚職 監視者 have 開始する，打ち上げるd a colourful defence of their 活動／戦闘s, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they never paid or 受託するd 賄賂s.
Developer John Woodman and former Casey 議員 Sameh Aziz 現在のd their 事例／患者s during an eccentric 90-minute 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 疫病／悩ますd by technical difficulties on Monday.
The 演説（する）／住所, in south Melbourne, 伴う／関わるd snippets from a silent film, a poster 明言する／公表するing "something is rotten in the 明言する／公表する of IBAC", in 言及／関連 to a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, and a ビデオ of a football bouncing across an NRL pitch.
An 独立した・無所属 幅の広い-based Anti-汚職 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 (IBAC) 報告（する）／憶測 （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するd in 議会 last week 設立する Mr Aziz and his 同僚 Geoff Ablett 受託するd almost $1.2 million in 支払い（額）s to 促進する the 利益／興味s of Mr Woodman and his （弁護士の）依頼人s.
The 操作／手術 Sandon 報告（する）／憶測 said the pair 繰り返して failed to 宣言する 衝突s of 利益／興味 and continued trying to 影響（力） other 議員s even after they did.
分かれて, Mr Woodman also 寄付するd more than $470,000 to the Labor and 自由主義の parties between 2010 and 2019, to 接近 明言する／公表する 決定／判定勝ち（する）-製造者s and to help 基金 the 選挙運動s of three Labor MPs.
During the 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 Mr Woodman and Mr Aziz 否定するd anything 不適切な took place.
Mr Woodman called the 報告（する）／憶測 "302 pages of lies, half-truths and hoax" and was 失望させるd the （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 did not 含む his 非常に長い submission in its final 報告（する）／憶測.
He 否定するd 賄賂ing any Casey 議員s and said there was nothing 妥当でない about 寄付するing to 政党s as long as there was nothing 推定する／予想するd in return.
Mr Woodman spent more than 30 minute s critiquing planning 決定／判定勝ち（する）s not connected to the IBAC 調査（する）.
He （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 peddled a "誤った narrative" against him, while waving a metre-long 木造の 支配者 at a projector 審査する.
Mr Aziz spent much of the 贈呈 clicking through slides for Mr Woodman before 説 he did not 受託する 賄賂s and would defend any 主張s against him.
He 認める he regretted once 支払う／賃金ing cash to Mr Woodman in a スーツケース but 主張するd it was connected to an 投資 計画／陰謀, and he received 利益／興味 on the money.
"If I had my time again, I don't think I would have 伝えるd the money to him in that manner, because 明白に the 問題／発行する of a スーツケース and cash raises all this imagery about 贈収賄 and impropriety," Mr Aziz said.
The former 議員 could not 解任する ever 述べるing Mr Woodman as a "bottomless ATM" and said he was not permitted to defend himself against the 汚職 調査（する）.
IBAC 拒絶する／低下するd to comment.
一方／合間, a former IBAC commissioner has 二塁打d 負かす／撃墜する on （人命などを）奪う，主張するs a powerful 正直さ 委員会 was 存在 "unduly 影響する／感情d" by 政府 利益／興味s.
Robert Redlich last year wrote to the Victorian 議会's （衆議院の）議長 and 大統領，／社長 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing politicisation of the Labor-大多数 正直さ and Oversight 委員会.
Mr Redlich's comments led to a shake-up, with the 委員会 no longer 議長，司会を務めるd by a 政府 member.
But a 報告（する）／憶測 published in The Age said the 委員会's Labor MPs tried to 封鎖する Mr Redlich from giving 証拠 to the 正直さ 委員会.
At a 委員会 審理，公聴会 on Monday, Mr Redlich said that 報告（する）／憶測 showed the 委員会 was still "unduly 影響する／感情d by political considerations".
"The 正直さ c ommittee stands between the （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 and 議会," Mr Redlich told the 審理，公聴会.
"It's pivotal that it's designed to operate without political 干渉，妨害."
Mr Redlich also called for IBAC to have wider 力／強力にするs, 含むing 存在 able to make findings of 汚職 even when it does not 構成する a 犯罪の offence.
"The 正直さ （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 should not be constrained by having to be 満足させるd that a 罪，犯罪 has been committed," he said.
