2016-04-05
Wilson Security should be stripped of their contracts for the offshore detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru after its poor corporate governance practices were revealed in the Panama Papers leak, the Australian Greens have said.
"Wilson Security should be stripped of their contracts and the government should get on with closing the Manus and Nauru camps," the Greens' immigration spokesperson, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
"Wilson Security has overseen the disastrous mismanagement of the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres, but the government continues to give them millions of dollars year after year.
"It's time they were held to account.
"Wilson Security were awarded the contracts with little due diligence into their tax structures and now they've been exposed as a client of Mossack Fonseca.
"This company has been accused by whistle-blowers of poor practices, such as shredding documents on Nauru, and now their ties with dodgy directors who have been jailed for corruption have been exposed.
"A sinister culture of secrecy and cover-up has been allowed to grow under Wilson's management at the offshore detention camps and the government must act.
"Malcolm Turnbull has been happy to use Wilson Security to do his dirty work offshore, but now he needs to remove them from the islands to protect the children who are locked up there and the Australian tax payer."
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