The IBAC hearings are investigating serious corruption allegations that public officials were paid off by Transclean while they oversaw taxpayer-funded cleaning contracts.
This is the third corruption probe into the regional rail operator, V/Line, in five years and the second probe into V/Line in three years.
On Friday, Transclean’s Mr Haritos was grilled about the source of a $320,000 loan that was paid to Mr Pinder that covered the deposit on his home in 2018.
Mr Pinder had asked Mr Haritos if he could approach his “friends” about helping him arrange finance for the loan, Mr Haritos told…