Alan MacSporran has resigned as the chair of Queensland’s Crime, and Corruption Commission (CCC) after a damning report released in December made his role “untenable.” MacSporran, who was a Queen’s Counsel and criminal barrister for four decades before joining the Australian state’s corruption watchdog, said he wrote to Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath, tendering his resignation effective Jan. 28. In a statement on Jan. 15, he said he found himself in a position where his honesty and integrity had been questioned for the first time in his 40 year career. “It is clear to me that the relationship between myself and the PCCC has broken down irretrievably,” MacSporran said. “This saddens me deeply.” In early December 2021, the bipartisan Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee (PCCC) handed down a report that found the watchdog did not act “independently and impartially” in laying fraud charges against the former mayor and councillors of the City of Logan. …