The Australian Federal Police have revealed they investigated allegations a witness provided false testimony to the robodebt royal commission, but did not find sufficient admissible evidence.
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In a media statement published on Wednesday afternoon, the AFP said they had received the allegations in July 2023.
Providing a false testimony is an offence under 6H of the Royal Commission Act 1902.
"The AFP undertook a thorough investigation, reviewing all material, including additional evidence and documents submitted to the royal commission," the AFP statement reads.
"The investigation was oversighted by the Sensitive Investigations Operations Board, which is chaired by an AFP deputy commissioner.
"The investigation did not identify sufficient admissible evidence to prove the alleged offender intended to mislead the royal commission."
The investigation has been closed, and police have informed relevant parties of the outcome.
Robodebt royal commissioner Catherine Holmes handed down her 990-page report into the unlawful scheme in July 2023.
She found robodebt - an income averaging scheme which falsely calculated debts owed by income support recipients between 2015 and 2019 - to have been a "crude and cruel" process which made innocent people feel like criminals.
Commissioner Holmes referred individuals for further civil and criminal prosecutions in a secret section of the report.
While the National Anti Corruption Commission has decided not to investigate any of the people referred to it, the Public Service Commission is due to release its final assessment on 14 current or former public servants imminently.
The Australian Federal Police and the ACT Law Society are also understood to have received referrals.
The Public Service Commission's findings will mark the formal end of the government's inquiries into robodebt, after it released its response to recommendations made in the report in November 2023.
It accepted 56 recommendations in some form, but rejected a call for increased transparency around cabinet documents.