Seven RBA-linked executives get Securency trial date
Seven former executives of the Reserve Bank of Australia's subsidiary Note Printing Australia and the NPA's half-owned Securency International have a combined trial date, beginning in late January, over bribery allegations involving officials in Malaysia.Justice Jane Hollingworth in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Friday set 29 January 2018 as the start of what, for now, is timetabled as a twelve-week trial, AAP reports.The seven are Barry Thomas Brady, Peter Sinclair Hutchinson, John Leckenby, Steven Kim Wong, Christian Boillot, Myles Andrew Curtis and Clifford John Geraghty.During committal proceedings that began in 2013, the seven were charged with various offences, including conspiring to bribe foreign officials. The forthcoming trial will centre on bribery allegations involving officials in Malaysia. Separate trials will be held for bribery allegations concerning Indonesia and Nepal, AAP reports.