Ex-NSW minister given second jail term for corruption

March 23, 2023 08:07 PM PDT | By AAPNEWS

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A former NSW Labor minister who used his position to corruptly benefit an ex-union leader over a coal mine in the Hunter Valley has received a second jail sentence.

Ian Michael Macdonald, 74, appeared at the NSW Supreme Court on Friday after being found guilty in a judge-alone retrial over two charges of misconduct in public office.

Justice Hament Dhanji sentenced the former resources minister to two concurrent sentences over the granting of licences to Doyles Creek Mining, chaired by former union boss John Maitland, without a competitive tender in 2008.

Maitland, a former national secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, was found not guilty of being an accessory last December.

The sentences of eight years, and six years and six months relating to the two charges have respective non-parole periods of five years and six months, and four years and six months.

Macdonald has already spent one year and nine months in custody over these offences before successfully overturning his conviction in February 2019.

The two sentences given on Friday will run alongside jail time imposed over separate corrupt behaviour in office after Macdonald entered into a conspiracy with former Labor minister Eddie Obeid and his son Moses Obeid.

The former mining minister committed wilful misconduct in public office over his award of a coal exploration licence that granted the Obeid family a $30 million windfall.

He will be eligible for parole on January 20, 2027.

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