Original article by Nick McKenzie
The Age – Page: Online : 14-Jun-23

A new joint taskforce will investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan that involved Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith. The taskforce comprises detectives from the Office of the Special Investigator and a team of Australian Federal Police investigators who are not connected to a previous five-year AFP inquiry into the war crimes allegations. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions had concluded in March that Roberts-Smith should not be prosecuted as a result of the earlier inquiry, due to concerns that the AFP investigators may have unwittingly used tainted evidence; that evidence comprised information from the separate war crimes inquiry headed by Paul Brereton.

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