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POLICE may be called in to investigate a Newcastle University academic,
Jesse Sheng Jin, over expense claims made against research grant money,
according to Fair Work Australia documents.
http://www.wrsa.net/1/2009/11/11/[email protected]
【澳大利亚科研经费的管理和促进研究产业化的措施】
金声 (Jesse Sheng Jin)
纽卡斯尔大学设计传媒信息技术学院 | c**z
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Professor Jin's barrister, Tony Slevin, told the Fair Work Australia
tribunal that his client, who denies any wrongdoing, faced not only possible
charges of serious misconduct but also referral to police and the
Independent Commission Against Corruption.
The academic went to the FWA tribunal last year arguing that Newcastle had
failed to follow the process for handling allegations under the enterprise
agreement.
The tribunal said it could not intervene to stop Newcastle's fact-finding
inquiry, which began hearings late last year.
Asked the result, Newcastle this week would not go into any detail, saying
it was "an ongoing investigation [and] we therefore cannot enter into a
public discussion of specific issues until due process is complete".
Professor Jin, an international expert in multimedia technology, has held
multiple grants, including Australian Research Council discovery grants. He
has served as a consultant to companies such as Motorola, and also as a
visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Neither Professor Jin nor his lawyer returned messages from the HES.
According to FWA documents, the university first put allegations to the
academic last February and stood him down later that month. The university
had identified 99 transactions that it believed to show serious misconduct,
Newcastle's lawyer told the tribunal last July. The lawyer said there were
eight allegations, one to do with what looked like duplicate expense claims
relating to a "special studies program" when he was mostly in China. The
academic said he had taken care of this with a reconciliation.
Professor Jin's lawyer told the tribunal the academic's suspension and
exclusion from the university had had "devastating consequences" for his
research.
At the time of the hearing, the academic had gone overseas in an effort to "
maintain some of his research", the lawyer said.
In October, the tribunal was told Newcastle had formed a preliminary view
that "without justification" Professor Jin's transactions "may constitute
corrupt or criminal conduct, and may also constitute misconduct or serious
misconduct".
Mr Slevin said that after this very broad statement, the university had
changed the way it described the case against his client.
For example, Newcastle at first had objected to the cost of a visa extension
in China on the grounds that it was for Professor Jin's wife, but once the
university realised the renewal was indeed for Professor Jin, the university
argued that an extension for him was not covered by the grant, Mr Slevin
told the tribunal.
Later, Newcastle argued that Professor Jin had no right to travel to China
under that grant, Mr Slevin said. "It's the shifting sands, the movable
feast, that has characterised the way the university has dealt with this
since the beginning of the year," he said.
Newcastle's lawyer denied this, saying "nothing has changed, nothing has
been added" to the case against the academic, apart from the fleshing out of
detail.
He told the tribunal the delay in the process had been caused by Professor
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: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/suspended-acad
: Professor Jin's barrister, Tony Slevin, told the Fair Work Australia
: tribunal that his client, who denies any wrongdoing, faced not only possible
: charges of serious misconduct but also referral to police and the
: Independent Commission Against Corruption.
: The academic went to the FWA tribunal last year arguing that Newcastle had
: failed to follow the process for handling allegations under the enterprise
: agreement.
: The tribunal said it could not intervene to stop Newcastle's fact-finding
: inquiry, which began hearings late last year.
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