Jeff Morris never set out to be a whistleblower.
But he is the man who helped expose corrupt practices at the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning arm that led to the banking royal commission.
Despite knowing the dire fate that awaited him when he blew the whistle, he felt he had no choice but to act at the time.
"You accept the consequences, and you go ahead and do it," Mr Morris tells ABC News.
In October 2008, Mr Morris went to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). He complained about a high-level management conspiracy at CBA to cover up for a rogue financial planner and thereby defraud hundreds of his clients of the "tens of millions" compensation to which they were entitled for his alleged gross malpractice.
Mr Morris said the cover-up included systemic file sanitation and the rogue planner being brought back from suspension and promoted to go on and dupe and deceive the victims.
"It went on for a period of 10 years before we got the royal commission," Mr Morris said.
He said even investigators at the corporate watchdog, ASIC, warned him at the time of his revelations...
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