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After a complex police investigation that lasted nearly a year, 20 people including Corrections Officers, Reintegration Officers and members of the public associated to prisoners have been charged with some officers allegedly accepting cash to smuggle mobile phones, drugs and tobacco into Mt Eden prison.
Stuff revealed on Wednesday, fourteen people - including Senior Corrections Officers - had been charged in relation to accepting bribes to introduce contraband into Mt Eden and Auckland South prisons.
Some of the officers were facing further charges for conspiring to supply methamphetamine and cannabis to unknown prisoners, court documents seen by Stuff alleged.
Police couldn’t comment on Wednesday, however on Thursday announced it had terminated Operation Jasper with 20 people now facing charges.
