Malinauskas Colluded With SAPOL to Delay Malicious Digance Prosecution Until After Election, Lied About Not Trying to Solicit “Incriminating” Comments During Covert Recording

Ms Digance is now suing Malinauskas and the government for $2.3 million, alleging her 2021 arrest for blackmail was unlawful and a malicious prosecution.

She alleges Malinauskas – who went undercover for SA Police during its investigation – abused his position and engaged in misfeasance.

Not surprisingly, Malinauskas and the government have denied her allegations and want the case thrown out.

But the evidence shows Mali has lied about what took place.

This shitshow started after Malinauskas told his mates at SAPOL that he met with Annabel and Greg Digance in 2020, and was “blackmailed”.

Malinauskas claimed the Digances “demanded” Annabel’s return to politics by having a position secured for her in the lower or upper house. She had previously lost her seat after a redistribution.

Malinauskas claimed he was told by the couple that if her passage back to parliament was not assured, then “deliberately damaging” claims about him were to be aired in the lead up to the 2022 election.

“It was alleged Gregory Digance had threatened Malinauskas that a failure to do so would result in his career being deliberately damaged in the lead up to the election through the making of claims of him being racist, a bigot and sexist,” then Superintendent Des Bray wrote in his affidavit.

A “distressed” Malinauskas contacted his mates at SAPOL, who fitted him with a covert listening wire and “deployed” him as a civilian undercover operative as part of a “top secret” operation.

If only these wankers put this kind of effort into fighting real crime.

Malinauskas wore the wire during a meeting with the couple at ALP headquarters in March 2021.

This was not the first time Malinauskas had engaged in covert recording. He previously recorded Greg Digance on his own initiative, without Digance’s knowledge, at the now closed Parlamento Cafe on North Tce.

Upon learning of the covert recordings, Digance’s statement of claim asserted the operation and recording devices were unlawfully used while “Mr Malinauskas attempted to extract incriminating statements” from her.

Malinauskas denies the claim, which begs the questions as to why he recorded and wore a covert listening device if he was not trying to extract incriminating verbal evidence from the Digances?

Are he and his SAPOL buddies just a bunch of weirdos who get off on secretly recording people?

As it happens, Malinauskas – who is entrusted with running the state – is no Donnie Brasco. To the contrary, he is such a dimwit that he forgot to turn the covert recording device off after the meeting with the Digances. It remained activated as he went home to his wife, and captured him telling her he was unable to “extract incriminating statements” about Annabel Digance and was “frustrated”, a court heard yesterday.

A politician lied, who would’ve thought?

The Supreme Court also heard that SAPOL “obeyed” Malinauskas’ request that Mrs Digance and her husband, Greg, not be prosecuted “until after the 2022 state election”.

If their behaviour was such a dire threat to the integrity of South Australia’s political system, as Malinauskas claimed after the Digances were arrested, then shouldn’t the matter have been dealt with as expediently as possible?

Malinauskas was obviously more concerned about how he and his party would be perceived at the next election. He wanted to punish the Digances for challenging him, but did not want to damage his chances of reelection.

On Monday, Geoffrey Watson SC, for Mrs Digance, said his client’s $2.3 million malicious prosecution lawsuit must go to trial despite the Premier’s push to have it summarily dismissed.

He alleged the case raised important issues of misfeasance in public office and failures to act in the public interest that must be heard and determined.

“Mr Malinauskas (made) this James Bond recording and did so in the absence of a reasonable cause to suspect an offence had been committed, and for political and personal reasons,” he said.

“He left the tape running … he expressed to his wife his frustration that he had been unable to extract incriminating statements.”

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas‘ frustration was caught on the secret recording. Picture: Nikki Short

Annabel Digance has claimed an interstate jurist must be flown in. Picture: Supplied

“What happens next is instructive … Mr Malinauskas told police he did not wish for a prosecution or investigation to proceed, wait for it, until after the 2022 state election.

“Is that a genuine concern? It seems to support the idea that a lot of this is political.”

Ms Digance has maintained the case cannot be heard by any South Australian judge and must instead be decided by an interstate jurist flown in specially for it.

In court on Monday, Mr Watson alleged Malinauskas’ “motivation” was to prevent a parliamentary bullying inquiry going ahead.

He said that meant all of Malinauskas’ actions were “for personal or political advantage” and “not in the public interest”, rendering the recording and other alleged evidence “inadmissible”.

“By obeying Mr Malinauskas, police were accepting that the evidence was insufficient – otherwise it would not be right for them to suspend the investigation.”

He said the presence of media at Mr and Mrs Digance’s arrest was a “breach” of police rules about the handling of “protected operations”.

Associate Justice Graham Dart said that was “common”, but Mr Watson suggested that was not the point.

“It may be common, but does that make it right? For a protected operation, it means somebody has done something wrong,” he said.

“The media were informed by somebody at SA Police, or Mr Malinauskas or an agent of his, or maybe both.”

He agreed witnesses in criminal cases could not be sued for what they said in court – but that immunity did not extend to their actions prior to a trial.

Associate Justice Dart will hand down his decision at a later date.

In another twist, Mali’s high-priced liar for hire, Michael Abbott KC, told the Supreme Court last August that the Digances had been found guilty of the blackmail charges, but they were subsequently dropped on the proviso they enter an order to leave his client alone.

This is incorrect.

The SA Courts Administration Authority (CAA) said in a statement that neither Ms or Mr Digance had been found guilty.

The court said that in April 2023 a nolle prosequi order was made, meaning the prosecution was abandoned.

“There were no orders made which involved a finding of guilt against either of the defendants,” the court said in a statement.

The court said that a document which stated that a finding of guilt had been made was “generated in error and is incorrect”.

“The CAA unreservedly apologises to the parties for this error,” the court said in a statement.

Mali is a Sickening Hypocrite

Malinauskas is a disgusting character who showed no compassion for the exasperated mother who blasted her daughter’s bully at a Gilles Plains Catholic high school last year. Not only was he unsympathetic, he publicly attacked the mother.

Shifty Pete told the media, “How do you possibly rationalise that behaviour? How does anyone in their own mind justify or rationalise that behaviour?”

“It’s indefensible. It’s reprehensible.”

Says the soft-cock who runs to his mates at SAPOL when a couple in their 60s hurt his tender feelings and he becomes “distressed”. That non-event was absurdly declared a “major crime” and triggered police intervention, covert recordings and a malicious prosecution – but parents are supposed to just sit by while their kids get relentlessly bullied and driven to suicide, while the schools do absolutely nothing about it?

What a hypocritical prick is Mali.

Mali Tries to Crush Open Discourse on the Slaughter of Innocents in Palestine

Malinauskas is also facing legal action from Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah after he falsely insinuated she was a terrorist sympathiser. He called for her to be axed from Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026, using events at Bondi as his excuse. 

Randa Abdel-Fattah had absolutely nothing to do with the events at Bondi.

Mali the Moron has presented absolutely nothing in the way of evidence to even suggest Abdel-Fattah supports or engages in terrorist activities.

Malinauskas said he was “fundamentally opposed” to Abdel-Fattah’s inclusion, because it “runs contrary to current community expectations of unity, healing and inclusion”.

Which “community expectations” is he referring to, exactly?

Someone needs to tell this defamation-loving muppet that it’s not okay to maliciously smear someone and crush freedom of speech in order to avoid upsetting a certain minority group that constantly complains about victimisation despite being over-represented on Australia’s rich list and wielding an unhealthy amount of political influence.