The then chief executive of the state’s biggest public hospital service, Malcolm Frederick Stamp, was stood down in September 2014 amid allegations he dishonestly arranged a job for his daughter Katy.

Mr Stamp flew in from the United Kingdom to face a committal hearing in a Brisbane court in July.

The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) charged him four years earlier, alleging he dishonestly arranged for his daughter to be given a media and communication services job with an annual salary of $80,000.

Mr Stamp was head of the Metro North Hospital and Health Service at the time.

The CCC alleged his daughter’s role was organised by another executive via a taxpayer-funded contract with a Metro North supplier before efforts were made to cover it up.

Mr Stamp was sacked in early 2015 after an internal investigation and returned to his native UK, where he was living when an arrest warrant was issued in 2018.

He had faced one charge each of corruptly soliciting valuable consideration to influence favour, false or misleading receive or account and fraudulently producing or using any record which is false.

All three charges with withdrawn in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday, with prosecutors saying there was no evidence to offer.

The decision came after Mr Stamp’s barrister Saul Holt asked the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions at the conclusion of the committal hearing in July to drop the charges.

Two men have already been convicted over the employment of Mr Stamp’s daughter, who is not accused of any wrongdoing.

Metro North’s former director of corporate services Scott McMullen received a wholly suspended two-year jail term in 2019 after pleading guilty to two counts of secret commission offences.

Former Metro North contractor Daniel Thomas Williams also received a wholly suspended sentence.

Former judge and corruption fighter Tony Fitzgerald recommended in August the CCC go through greater checks and balances before lodging charges.

His inquiry followed claims the watchdog breached its duty to remain independent and impartial during a bungled probe into the former mayor and seven councillors from Logan, south of Brisbane.

The eight were charged with fraud in 2019, which led to the council’s dismissal, but the prosecutions were discontinued almost two years later.

Charges of misconduct in public office against former Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland were dropped in January after prosecutors offered no evidence part way through his committal hearing.

Mr Sutherland afterwards accused the CCC of being “out of control”.

“They have systemic problems … and I’ll be working with whoever it takes to see that another mayor doesn’t have to go through what I’ve been through,” he said.

Former NSW ombudsman Bruce Barbour was appointed chair of the watchdog in July after the resignation of Alan MacSporran in January.

He had faced one charge each of corruptly soliciting valuable consideration to influence favour, false or misleading receive or account and fraudulently producing or using any record which is false.

All three charges with withdrawn in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday, with prosecutors saying there was no evidence to offer.