Anita Green told the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission inquiry she was enrolled in a Certificate IV in Engineering course in 2014 without her knowledge as part of her employment at a utility infrastructure service provider.

Ms Green said she attended a single three-hour “Lean Six Sigma” training session in September 2014 but did not undertake any assessment and it was not made clear to her she was being enrolled in a Certificate IV.

“As part of the Lean continuous improvement, there are obviously different belts to acquire the full qualification, and the white belt was the most subordinate component of that training, and that’s what we were sitting for that day,” she said.

An enrollment form, which Ms Green said she did not recognise and was not in her handwriting, was submitted to the inquiry with Rebecca Taylor – the alleged mastermind of a scheme to corruptly siphon off public funds which is the focus of the Operation Lansdowne hearings – listed as a teacher.

The form also listed Ms Green’s email address as being “@jetstar.com”, despite the fact she had never been employed by the airline.

Ms Green said she first learned she had been enrolled in the engineering course when she received a statement of attainment from Kangan just before Christmas in 2014, which set off “alarm bells” that something was amiss.

“It rattled me a little bit,” she said.

“Then there was another document that I had received in January, and that sort of set the bigger alarm bells off.”

The second document was a letter from Ms Taylor which contained a reference to a Certificate IV in Engineering, which Ms Green said concerned her “immensely”, as it was the first time the course had been mentioned to her “besides the certificate, which didn’t make sense”.

“I had never sat anything to acquire any qualifications that leverage towards that attainment,” she said.

It was then Ms Green rang the TAFE to request any evidence they had that she had undertaken any training or assessment, which she said they were unable to produce.

“They were able to produce the information that they had deemed it competent against, but I actually wanted the evidence that I would submit that would acquire that part of that element of that qualification, which could not be provided,” she said.

“You’d got in touch with Kangan, had you not, to tell them, ‘Hey, I’ve just received a statement of attainment for a qualification that I had no idea that I was enrolled in, and had no intention of being enrolled in’?” IBAC barrister Carmen Currie asked.

“Correct. And that’s when I asked for my enrolment form and all the documentation that supported the attainment of the qualification,” Ms Green responded.

“And then when I saw the information that was provided and the fact the information had been changed, then obviously, you know, emotions got high about the fact that it was fraudulent to what I had actually done.”

Ms Green said the TAFE directed her inquiries back to the staff member at her own company that had conducted the initial “white belt” training.

“There was no real compassion there about concern around the whole process,” she said.

The hearings continue in Melbourne on Tuesday.