Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf appeared before the Public Accounts Committee yesterday and told them that he was not involved in the renegotiations that led to Bill Ogley’s huge payout clause or to the decision to sanction the ‘golden handshake’.
Although last month’s report by the States’ independent spending watchdog into Mr Ogley’s departure revealed that the breakdown in the relationship between the Senator and the former civil servant triggered the payoff, Senator Ozouf said he was not involved in the key decisions.
But he declined to give his side of the story in open session, so the committee removed the public and press to hear his views in secret.
• Full report in today’s JEP
