Former union boss John Maitland had a bad start to his day before the ICAC after being caught lying. Source: AAP
FORMER union boss John Maitland had a shaky first day at a NSW corruption inquiry being grilled about his allegedly close ties with a former mining minister and being caught lying about what he'd told another associate.
The former head of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) admitted he'd been caught out when a secret phone recording was played at Tuesday's hearing of the Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry (ICAC).
In it, he is heard talking to his friend Archibald Tudehope about a private examination by ICAC.
Before the tape was played, the one-time mining union heavyweight was asked repeatedly whether he had ever lied to the inquiry and if he understood he must not discuss private evidence with others.
He said each time he had always been truthful.
"You were telling him in some detail what had been raised with you by me in that examination," ICAC lawyer Peter Braham said.
"It certainly appears so," Mr Maitland said.
"And you've lied about that fact this morning, haven't you?" Mr Braham asked.
Mr Maitland replied: "It appears so."
ICAC is probing a coal exploration licence at Doyles Creek in the Hunter Valley granted by then NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald to Mr Maitland and his associates in December 2008 without a competitive tender.
That licence allegedly turned Mr Maitland's $165,000 investment into about $15 million when it was sold.
Mr Maitland's rough start in the witness box came after he'd spent more than an hour denying that he had been close friends with the disgraced minister.
He said Labor MPs Luke Foley, Doug Cameron and former NSW Premier Nathan Rees were all wrong to suggest to the inquiry he and Mr Macdonald had shared a close friendship since the 1990s.
"We had a good working relationship," Mr Maitland said.
But when the subject of his retirement dinner, which Mr Macdonald was supposed to host, was raised at the hearing, Mr Maitland said the then minister never showed up.
"If he was me mate, he would have showed up," he said.
In the last few minutes of the day's hearing, Mr Maitland admitted Mr Macdonald had supported his idea of a training mine before any details of the proposal was provided.
"His support was of the idea," he said.
The proposed training mine was used for commercial proposes and made the investors millions.
The hearing also heard about a meal the pair had at Sydney's high-end Prime restaurant in which Mr Maitland admitted lobbying the minister for the licence but once again denied using his friendship with the minister.
The hearing, before Commissioner David Ipp, continues.
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