The NSW corruption watchdog has further delayed the release of its findings from a four-year investigation into allegations against former Wagga MP Daryl Maguire and former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
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The Independent Commission Against Corruption announced yesterday that it had granted a deadline extension for some parties to provide written submissions in response to counsel assisting Scott Robertson.
All parties were originally to provide confidential submissions to ICAC by March 28 but some parties will now be able to submit by May 9.
ICAC's decision to grant the extensions now means that its report will not be handed down until well after May 9.
In 2018, an ICAC inquiry into allegations of corruption at a Sydney council was played a series of intercepted phone calls in which Mr Maguire was heard allegedly soliciting kickbacks on potential property deals.
The scandal resulted in Mr Maguire resigning from the Liberal Party before he eventually left parliament altogether, triggering a byelection in the seat he has held since 1999.
ICAC launched a dedicated investigation, Operation Keppel, into allegations that Mr Maguire breached public trust while an MP and at public hearings in 2020 it was revealed he had been in a "close personal relationship" with Premier Gladys Berejiklian for several years.
In 2021, Ms Berejiklian was called before ICAC as the inquiry expanded to examine whether her relationship with Mr Maguire constituted a conflict of interest when her government announced millions of dollars in grants to the electorate.
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