New South Wales (NSW) state corruption watchdog found that former Premier Gladys Berejiklian and former Member of Parliament Daryl Maguire engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” after a nearly three-year investigation.
In a report published on June 29, the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) found that Berejiklian had substantially broken the ministerial code in 2017-18 when she failed to declare a conflict of interest by keeping her relationship with Maguire under wraps.
At the time, she granted over $35 million in government funds to two organisations in Wagga Wagga that Maguire, the representative for that electorate, had advocated for.
The proposal of one of the grants had also been overseen by Berejiklian when she had been the state’s treasurer….