Ms Berejiklian's testimony was initially set to be heard on Thursday and Friday, but her appearance on Thursday has now been cancelled and she will probably have to return to the ICAC on Monday. Sarah Cruickshank, a former chief of staff to Gladys Berejiklian, arrives at ICAC on Tuesday Mr Robertson said: 'I don't intend to call Mr Maguire tomorrow' due to 'investigative reasons'. Mr Maguire has been switched from Wednesday to Thursday. The delayed start on Tuesday may have been due to a change in the witness list timetable. Sophie Callan, representing Ms Berejiklian said ICAC has taken evidence from 'seven men' about whether the former premier was in a position of conflict in light of her relationship with Mr Maguire between 20. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is, in part, investigating if Ms Berejiklian engaged in conduct 'liable to allow or encourage the occurrence of corrupt conduct' by former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire, with whom she was in a secret relationship at the time. Mr Maguire's testimony at a corruption hearing into former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has been delayed due to 'investigative reasons'. Mr Harley said in the email to colleagues in Ms Berejiklian's office that 'I personally don't want to push this project but the premier did'.
The commission has heard the recital hall was one of the projects Mr Maguire had pushed hard for in the pursuit of funding.
Mr Maguire, had quit politics a month earlier after giving evidence at an earlier ICAC inquiry, resulting in a by-election. Gladys's confidant and former chief of staff Neil Harley It was the day it was revealed that Mr Maguire was a person of interest to ICAC. Sarah Cruickshank said she thought the call was unusual as Mr Berejiklian was on leave at the time.
'We talked in broad terms about the nature of the relationship.'Īnother former chief of staff to Ms Berejiklian, later told the ICAC that on Friday 13 July 2018 the then premier called her and told her 'she'd been close in the past with Mr Maguire'. commenced and when it finished,' he said. 'We didn't go into detail about when (the relationship with Mr Maguire). 'It was a very difficult conversation for both of us,' he said, adding that the former premier is 'inherently a very private person'. The Independent Commission Against Corruption hearing into former the NSW premier heard from Neil Harley that he spoke with Ms Berejiklian after she was summonsed to give evidence at a different ICAC investigation last year. A series of Gladys Berejiklian's closest confidants have given evidence to a corruption inquiry about the moments the then-NSW Premier confessed her secret relationship to them.
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