20 June 2025 - Former MP Daryl Maguire Found Guilty of Giving False Evidence to ICAC
Former NSW MP Daryl Maguire found guilty of misleading corruption inquiry
Australian Associated Press (The Guardian, 20/06/2025)
Ex-Liberal MP Daryl Maguire has been found guilty of misleading a corruption inquiry about benefits expected from a $48m property development sale. The former member for Wagga Wagga, whose clandestine relationship with ex-NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian led to her political downfall, appeared at Sydney’s Downing Centre court for the verdict on Friday. Magistrate Clare Farnan found Maguire misled the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption while giving evidence during a hearing in July 2018. Farnan rejected a bid by Maguire’s legal team to suppress the publication of the guilty verdict.
Disgraced former MP Maguire guilty of lying to ICAC probe
Steve Zemek (The Australian, 20/06/2025)
Former MP Daryl Maguire is facing the prospect of being jailed after he was found guilty of giving misleading evidence to ICAC. Maguire, 66, fronted a Sydney court on Friday where he was found guilty by a magistrate of one count of giving false or misleading evidence at a public inquiry. Maguire, who was the MP for Wagga Wagga from 1999 to 2018, faced a hearing in the Downing Centre Local Court earlier this year where he pleaded not guilty to the lone count. The case centred on Maguire’s evidence before the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in July 2018. During the ICAC probe, he denied asking to receive a financial benefit for brokering a property deal at Canterbury.
Secret's out: premier's ex-partner misled watchdog
Miklos Bolza (The Canberra Times, 20/06/2025)
Findings that Daryl Maguire misled a corruption probe about a $48 million property development sale can be revealed after the ex-Liberal MP lost a bid to suppress them. The former member for Wagga Wagga, whose clandestine relationship with ex-NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian led to her political downfall, appeared at Sydney's Downing Centre Courthouse for the verdict on Friday. Magistrate Clare Farnan ruled that Maguire misled the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption while giving evidence during a hearing in July 2018.
Former MP Daryl Maguire found guilty of giving false or misleading evidence at ICAC
Jamie McKinnell and Jessica Kidd (ABC News, 20/06/2025)
Former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire has been found guilty of giving false or misleading evidence to the NSW corruption watchdog at a hearing in 2018, as it investigated the former Canterbury City Council. Maguire had denied wrongdoing, but prosecutors argued the former member for Wagga Wagga engaged in a "money making exercise" when he allegedly discussed a commission with a local councillor over a multimillion-dollar property deal. He appeared as a witness in Operation Dasha, the Independent Commission Against Corruption's (ICAC) investigation into allegations of corruption against councillors and whether they dishonestly exercised their official functions in relation to planning proposals.
Daryl Maguire in 2006. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.