These included, when she was treasurer, causing the proposal to be included on the agenda and supporting it at the ERC meeting on 14 December 2016 and when she was premier, causing steps to be taken by staff from her office to follow up on the progress of the ACTA proposal following the ERC ACTA decision. The Commission finds that Ms Berejiklian took a number of actions in relation to the ACTA proposal in circumstances where she knew that Mr Maguire was its principal proponent. The Commission also finds that in the same period, Ms Berejiklian partially exercised her official functions, in connection with funding promised to ACTA, influenced by the existence of her close personal relationship with Mr Maguire. The Commission finds that Ms Berejiklian engaged in serious corrupt conduct by breaching public trust in 20 through exercising her official functions in relation to funding promised and/or awarded to ACTA, without disclosing her close personal relationship with Mr Maguire, when she was in a position of a conflict of interest between her public duty and her private interest, which could objectively have the potential to influence the performance of her public duty. At the same time, Mr Maguire and Ms Berejiklian were in an undisclosed close personal relationship. Ms Berejiklian had presided over and/or been a member of the Expenditure Review Committee (ERC) meetings that had approved the grants, which comprised $5.5 million for ACTA and $10 million for refurbishing and repurposing a new government-owned site to make it fit-for-purpose for the RCM (RCM Stage 1). Mr Maguire was an enthusiastic advocate for grants of public monies for the Australian Clay Target Association (ACTA), and the Riverina Conservatorium of Music ('the RCM'), two Wagga Wagga-based institutions. Other misuse of his office as an MP included attempting to advance his own private financial interests and/or those of people associated with him in connection with the sale and/or development of land in NSW. Also, as an MP and chair of the NSW Parliament Asia Pacific Friendship Group, Mr Maguire misused those roles to advance his own financial interests and the commercial interests of his associates. He also misused his role as an MP to advance his own financial interests, as well as the commercial interests of his associates, in connection with an immigration scheme that he promoted to his constituents and others connected with his electoral district. Mr Maguire also failed to disclose his interest and position in G8wayInternational and/or all the sources of his income, as he was required to do under the Constitution (Disclosure by Members) Regulation 1983. In its report released today, Investigation into the conduct of the then member of Parliament for Wagga Wagga and then premier and others (Operation Keppel), the Commission finds that, between 2012 and August 2018, Mr Maguire improperly used his office, and the resources to which he had access as a member of Parliament (MP), to benefit G8wayInternational Pty Ltd, a company of which he was in substance a director, and whose profits he had an arrangement to share with others. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has found that the former premier of NSW, Gladys Berejiklian, and the former member of Parliament for Wagga Wagga, Daryl Maguire, have engaged in serious corrupt conduct.

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