Western Australia's new Corruption and Crime Commissioner has withdrawn a section of a controversial report written by his predecessor.

A report published by then-CCC Commissioner John McKechnie in 2019 alleged WA's former Japanese trade commissioner, Craig Peacock, had acted corruptly by double-dipping on cost of living allowance claims and payments, costing taxpayers more than $500,000.

The report found that in 2015, he had used state resources to pay for two Liberal MPs to have $700 massages at a Japanese bathhouse known as a "soapland".

It included discussion of whether Mr Peacock should have paid tax in Japan or Australia, or both countries.

Mr McKechnie wrote in that section that Mr Peacock had been "possibly evading tax in both Japan and Australia" but that the issue was "outs

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