Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid was rarely seen on his property in the coal-rich Bylong Valley. Source: AAP
FORMER Labor minister Eddie Obeid only visited a property his family owned in a coal-rich part of NSW three or four times in two years despite it supposedly being a weekender, an inquiry has heard.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is probing whether former Labor minister Ian Macdonald rigged a 2008 tender process for coal exploration licences in the Bylong Valley, and if Eddie Obeid benefited from it.
It has been alleged the Obeids made millions of dollars from the allegedly tainted coal deal.
The ICAC has previously heard evidence that Bylong land in which the Obeids had a stake was to be used for leisure purposes.
But in evidence on Tuesday, Barry Gregory, who used to manage the Obeid's property Cherrydale Park, said in the two years he worked there he only saw Eddie Obeid a handful of times.
"How often would old Eddie be there," counsel assisting the commissioner, Geoffrey Watson SC, asked.
"I only saw old Eddie there three or four times," Mr Gregory replied.
He said Mr Obeid stayed on the property for "a couple of days" at a time.
He agreed with counsel's suggestion that the property wasn't a "weekender" for the Obeids.
"It wasn't a weekender was it, in the sense that there was always an Obeid family member there on the weekends," Mr Watson asked.
"Not every weekend no," Mr Gregory replied.
He also told the inquiry he had asked the Obeids for new farming equipment, including a tractor, but it had never been provided.
The inquiry continues before Commissioner David Ipp.
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