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ANDREW CLENNELL, JANET FIFE-YEOMANS & SIMON BENSON

THEhead of1CAC metfaceto-face with the Director of Public Prosecutions before the corruption body's announcement it would be referring Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor tvlargaret Cunneen to the DPP to consider charges against her.

\iVhile ICAC announced yesterday it had referred Ms Cunneen to the OPP to consider charges against her of attempting to pervert the course of justice and giving false evidence. The Daily Telegraph can reveal that

despite having distanced herself from the inquiry, ICAC head Megan Latham met personally with OPP Lloyd Babb on the n1atter.

The extraordinary move to refer the matter came despite the High Court ruling a month agothat lCAC had no jurisdiction to investigate tvls Cunneen over allegations she attempted to perve1t the course of justice at the scene of a car accident.

The corruption commission had alleged Ms Cunneen advised her son's girlfriend, Sophia Tilley, to fake ch est pai.ns at the scene of