The Australian Council has confirmed the leak of the confidentiality report

Australian Cricket chief Nick Hockley said on Sunday that police were assisting the governing body after a secret report to the anti-corruption unit was released to the media.

Melbourne newspaper The Age reported on Sunday that it had received a recording of a phone call between a woman and Sean Carroll, the former head of Cricket Australia, where the woman alleged that a player was using cocaine.

The woman, who described herself as a top escort, said the unidentified player was “throwing lines” at her cocaine and dancing naked on a balcony while partying.

It was not clear when the phone call occurred. Carroll left Cricket Australia (CA) a year ago.

Hockley said the woman’s report was “baseless” and “historic,” but that the committee contacted police because of the leak.

“Stealing confidential information is a crime,” Hockley told reporters at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. “So … we’re getting help from Victorian police.

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“It’s clear that it’s important for people to be able to connect with our line of integrity with confidence, knowing that it will all be safe.”

The Age said the recording was sent to paper via an encrypted email service from an anonymous address.

A leak source said he was a former CA employee who “wanted to expose the flaws of the integrity unit.”

Hockley said the CA regularly reviewed its wholeness processes to ensure they were “absolutely best practices.”

The leak came just over a month after former captain Tim Paine’s CA integrity unit released a secret investigation that prompted the wicket-keeper to step down and retire from the team.

Paine admitted that in 2017 he sent explicit sex messages to a former Cricket Tasmanian employee, but the following year he was removed from the CA investigation by failure.