Marie Christos ... on a mission to find the interview.

Marie Christos ... on a mission to find the interview. Photo: Peter Rae

It took a former prostitute just a few days to pilfer sensitive computer files and find what she wanted: the nine-page police interview of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld.

The breach of security by Marie Christos, who was linked to the Einfeld court case, occurred while she worked as a typist at APT Transcriptions, a company with lucrative contracts with the police and justice departments and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Ms Christos became embroiled in the Einfeld case after she found documents in the bin of her former lover and Einfeld's then solicitor, Michael Ryan.

 

A Herald investigation recently revealed that APT Transcriptions was awarded these contracts despite the owner's father, Paul Devine, being a former detective who the ICAC had found guilty of corruption over a huge racket in confidential personal records 18 years ago.

Ms Christos said she worked for APT for three months in 2007.

''[APT owner] Renee Quinn interviewed and hired me. There was no police check done and she boasted that they typed the Marcus Einfeld interview,'' Ms Christos told the Herald.

''I made it my mission to find it and I was surprised that it was still on the system because it was typed two months earlier.''

Ms Christos also accessed the 22-page interview of Angela Liati, who was convicted of lying over the Einfeld speeding affair that landed the former Federal Court judge in jail last year.

APT has a three-year contract with the ICAC. It also has a contract with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General and is under contract with the NSW Police Force until April..

NSW police and the Justice Department require police checks of employees but the ICAC would not say whether it does.

Another former APT employee, who did not want to be named, said she never had a check and had a criminal record for drug use.

Ms Christos said typists would call out about ''interesting'' interviews with suspects - which ranged from break and enter to child sex assaults to Police Integrity Commission matters - and everyone would listen.

''My very first interview [that I typed] was of Scott Orrock and another bikie gang member. I thought it was hilarious because Orrock was shot in the knee and the police arrested him because he refused to tell them who shot him,'' she said.

Ms Christos is the fifth former employee, but the only one to go on record, to say that Mrs Quinn's father, Paul Devine, was regularly at the APT offices and her mother, Janet Devine, prepared the weekly pay slips, contrary to what the company told the ICAC during probity.

''Her father came in at other odd times, too, with other men who also looked like detectives,'' Ms Christos said.

Yesterday, Mrs Quinn again denied her parents had any involvement in APT.

She said ''police record checks are conducted on employees''.

Asked to explain how Ms Christos was able to access the Einfeld interview, she said: ''Interviews are not deleted but archived after a period of time where access is not available to all staff.''