Disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire allegedly told then-NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to get a private phone and download the instant messaging app WeChat days after he had been summoned by Australia’s corruption watchdog in 2018, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) heard on Monday. The allegations come as the former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian appeared before the corruption inquiry for the second time. Maguire texted Berejiklian on July 9, 2018, asking her to download WeChat, a messaging app popular among Chinese people, which has raised security concerns. “They can read texts, but not the little green man. It leaves no trace,” Maguire allegedly wrote to Berejiklian five days after he was called by the commission. When confronted with the text messages Berejiklian said she had no idea if “they” referred to ICAC, or if the “little green man” referred to WeChat, which had a green icon with two cartoonized portrait images, saying …
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