Victoria’s parliament has supported a motion to refer the state’s Labor party’s ‘red shirts scandal’ to the anti-corruption commission.

Victorian Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela crossed the floor to vote in support of MP Adem Somyurek’s motion asking parliament to refer the allegations of corruption involving the Labor Party to the Victorian Ombudsman and IBAC.

In 2018, Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass found Labor misused $388,000 of public money by employing campaign organisers as electorate officers in what is know as the “red shirts scandal”.

The party repaid the money after the Ombudsman's report and police did not lay charges.

The integrity bodies will now decide whether or not they investigate the matter further.

Ms Vaghela claimed that as a former staff member of the Socialist Left faction of the party, she knew “all about their branch-stacking activities and their electorate offices being used for factional purposes”.

“If branch-stacking and factional operatives working in electorate offices is corrupt, then the Socialist Left and all other factions must be investigated,” she said. 

Ms Vaghela was not re-endorsed by Labor for the state’s upcoming election as part of a factional purge.

She was also part of Mr Somyurek's Moderate Labor faction, which has reportedly crumbled since Mr Somyurek was kicked out of the party.

Mr Somyurek is himself the subject of an ongoing investigation by IBAC over a branch-stacking scandal, but he denies his latest motion is revenge.