Close followers of Canberra courts may have heard a man by the name of Dimitrios Brendas , 37, was charged with running an illegal brothel early last month.

What wasn’t made clear at the time is Brendas had a day job.

During this police raid of an illegal brothel in Reid, a note from a sex worker led police to another alleged brothel in Dimitrios Brendas' Braddon apartment. Supplied

He's a Comcar driver, spending his days ferrying MPs around town.

No evidence yet of a door-to-door Parliament House to bordello service.

If only former Health Services Union boss turned Labor MP turned disgraced former Labor MP Craig “Jeff” Thomson had been informed given his earlier enthusiasm for escorts.

(It is unclear whether this particularly facility had its own “red turbo spa room”.)

Brendas was charged with running the illegal brothel out of his Braddon flat early last month after a tip off from sex workers at another raided illegal Canberra venue.

Comcar driver Dimitrios Brendas has been let go after being charged with operating an illegal brothel in Canberra. Alex Ellinghausen

Brendas, who was employed to drive the Commonwealth-owned Holdens through a labour-hire firm, is no longer required to tender his services to the Parliament.

He’s probably got other things on his mind.

Illustration: John Shakespeare

Brendas is also the landlord of a building that houses a legal brothel called Sassy Gina’s, where punters can find a “happy ending” massage for $130 an hour.

Police documents filed before the Canberra court early last month claim Brendas’ Braddon apartment had little furniture, an enormous amount of linen and what The Canberra Times described as “a copious amount of cleaning products”.

Good to know.

CBD hears Special Minister of State Alex Hawke, having just sorted out Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert’s staggering internet bill, was deeply unhappy to find someone even remotely connected to the illegal brothel trade could be on the payroll.

A full investigation is now under way into the vetting of Comcar drivers.

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Smile, you're on camera

David Carr, three years before being found guilty of two counts of aggravated indecent assault, appeared in advertising for Michael Kodari's KOSEC Securities. AAP

Three years ago, Double Bay “smile guru” David Carr endorsed Sydney stockbroker Michael Kodari and his KOSEC Securities outfit.

“Investing in the stock market should be profitable and painless,” Carr said in an advert which also featured Kodari posted to the KOSEC website.

“Working with Michael Kodari and the KOSEC team ensured that my clients, and friends, are in safe hands.”

Too bad it later turned out there was at least one pair of very unsafe hands in that commercial – and it wasn’t Kodari’s!

Carr, who boasted of cleaning Cate Blanchett’s teeth, was found guilty on two counts of aggravated indecent assault two months ago after trying to kiss and grab a young woman, causing her uniform to rip open and expose her bra in 2016.

Charming.

In a completely unrelated development, however, some poor squirrel over at KOSEC HQ seems to have made a total hash of reading an ASX announcement.

Only last week the KOSEC social media account whizzed into action to bring us the news, in a now disappeared tweet, that ANZ had been hit with a $374 million fine for misconduct, including allegations of “$206 million for accelerated amortisation on software”.

What a scoop! Unfortunately (but not for customers), the $374 million was an accounting miscalculation about the impact of customer refunds.

And the “alleged” software amortisation had absolutely nothing to do with it.

If we can make sense of the announcement, surely a safe pair of hands should have no trouble.

Party time

Liberals MPs Trent Zimmerman and Tim Wilson, pictured during Question Time in August, celebrated Zimmerman's birthday with their colleagues on Tuesday night. Alex Ellinghausen

It was an invite-only affair at the Deakin pad shared by Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham and Defence Minister Christopher Pyne for the Tuesday night 50th birthday celebration for fourth housemate Trent Zimmerman.

We’ve heard it was a serious Moderate love-in.

Along to blow out the candles on the caramel carrot cake provided by Payne were fellow Liberals Linda Reynolds, Sarah Henderson, Jason Falinski, Trevor Evans, Dean Smith, Tim Wilson, Craig Laundy and David Coleman.

Pyne, who was not there, had already made up by publicly announcing Zimmerman’s big day in Question Time the previous day.

Sadly, we’re told not so many presents were forthcoming, although Falinski did bring a very fine gin.

Nearby, at Clive Palmer’s favourite joint Wild Duck, Liberal factional powerbroker Michael Photios dined with a number of other Moderates.

That Kingston Foreshore Chinese restaurant also hosted Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, deep in conversation with Communications Minister Mitch Fifield and the Australian newspaper’s political editor Dennis Shanahan.

In the next room, Labor leader Bill Shorten was dining with the party’s class of 2007.

We wonder what was said about their former glorious leader Kevin Rudd, whose new book The PM Years is due to be released next Tuesday.