An investigation is underway into how the transcript of a closed private hearing at a corruption inquiry was published online during an investigation into disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire.
Key points:
- The transcript was removed less than an hour after it was published on the ICAC website
- ICAC Assistant Commissioner Ruth McColl has apologised and ordered an internal investigation
- The Premier's barrister has asked ICAC to investigate who downloaded the transcript
Mr Maguire yesterday faced questioning about his secret "on-again, off-again" personal relationship with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the extent of the information he shared with her about his side-business dealings while he was an MP.
A transcript of the closed session of questioning was mistakenly published on the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) website but removed less than an hour later.
But barrister representing Ms Berejiklian, Arthur Moses SC, also requested ICAC investigate who may have downloaded the transcript in the period it was available online, describing it as a "violation" of the Premier's privacy and security.
"We would like to work with the Commission to consider whether your lawyers can assist you in respect of the scope of your powers to make those orders which, in effect to ascertain, whether first of all this Commission can exercise through it's technology processes who downloaded the material," he said.
During this morning's hearing, Mr Maguire was quizzed on the extent of the information he shared with Ms Berejiklian, including a deal he tried to broker with overseas investors for the sale of land around Sydney's second airport at Badgerys Creek.
The inquiry has been told Mr Maguire was expecting to receive a commission of about $1.5 million for teeing up the deal between a Chinese company and his landowner friend Louise Waterhouse.
The hearing was played an intercepted phone call between Mr Maguire and Ms Berejiklian in October 2017 where he discussed meetings he sought with the Premier's staff to help rectify a planning issue for Ms Waterhouse.
MAGUIRE: "I had coffee with Louise Waterhouse".
BEREJIKLIAN: "Oh yeah, how's she going?"
MAGUIRE: "Yeah good. She's got a big problem so I took up to your office and said here can you help solve it. She's got a lot of property out at Badgerys Creek ..."
BEREJIKLIAN: "Yeah."
MAGUIRE: "... and the Planning Department right, and and RMS and all them are saying look you know, we, we don't want to plan that now, we're too busy worrying about you know, the new housing and all this around Badgerys Creek.
"And she's saying but, you know, I need a road, I need an access, give me an access. I'll develop it myself, I don't need you, right."
BEREJIKLIAN: "Mmm."
MAGUIRE: "and they're resisting. She said I've been two years trying to get this road on. She said and."
BEREJIKLIAN: "Mmm."
MAGUIRE: "... and they just won't do anything and I said okay. So I got Roads, I got Jock to come down and I got um, one bloke from your place there, got them to put their heads together and said look, why can't you fix this.""They, they need to extend the, the, the thing 300 metres right and, and there's no change in it. You know put 300 metres and she can get on with the job. Honestly. I just, you know, nobody wants to do anything."
Ms Berejiklian maintains she was never briefed on the details of Mr Maguire's business dealings and that she never became involved with his financial affairs.
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