Daryl Maguire: former Wagga MP charged with conspiracy to commit offence
Former NSW MP Daryl Maguire has been charged after a lengthy investigation into his alleged involvement with a scheme around visas for non-citizens. Commonwealth prosecutors today attempted to have him remanded in custody.
Former NSW MP Daryl Maguire has been charged after a lengthy investigation into allegations over conduct which allegedly occurred during his term in the NSW Government.
Maguire, 63, has been charged by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions with conspiracy to commit an offence (conspire).
The former Wagga Wagga state Liberal MP from 1999 to 2018 is now facing allegations over his alleged involvement with a scheme surrounding applications for visas permitting non-citizens to remain in Australia.
A court attendance notice tendered to Downing Centre Local Court states Maguire is alleged to have conspired with a woman named Maggie Sining Logan to “cause to be furnished, for official purposes of the Commonwealth, documents in connection with applications for visas permitting non-citizens to remain in Australia”.
The documents are alleged to contain statements or information that was “false or misleading in materials particular”.
The allegations pertain to a period from January 2013 to August 2018 and Maguire resigned from the Liberal Party and the parliament on August 3 that year.
Maguire was previously revealed to have been in a relationship with ex-NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
She is not accused of any wrongdoing and has never been charged with an offence.
At Downing Centre Local Court before Magistrate Susan Horan, the CDPP endeavoured to have Maguire – who did not appear in person – remanded in custody via a detention application.
But bail was granted by Magistrate Susan Horan on strict conditions, including that he surrender his passport to the Wagga Wagga Local Court registrar no later than 4pm today.
He is also forbidden to apply for another passport.
Maguire is not to leave Australia, not to approach any international airport or other point of departure from Australia, to reside at a nominated Wagga address, and not contact any prosecution witnesses or any others named in a statement of facts dated November 3 2022.
If Maguire wishes to attend and stay at an Ivanhoe address his solicitor nominated to the court, he is required to report his intended travel to an Australian Border Force case officer.
The matter was adjourned to February 7 at the Downing Centre Local Court.
More to come.
