Rumours Ian Macdonald is making his move

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Rumours Ian Macdonald is making his move

Andrew Clennell
The Daily Telegraph
February 09, 201312:00AM

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Former NSW ALP MP Ian Macdonald leaving ICAC / Pic: Craig Greenhill Source: The Daily Telegraph

HE will be ICAC’s star witness on Monday, but besieged former state Labor minister Ian Macdonald appears to be cutting his ties with Australia after listing his country retreat for sale.

The man at the centre of one of the state’s biggest political corruption investigations has listed his 21ha farm property in Orange for sale at $960,000.

Mr Macdonald and his wife offloaded their house in Strathallen Ave, Northbridge, for $1,187,500 in April 2012, shortly before he moved to Hong Kong.

When contacted to see if the property was still on the market, real estate agent Jim Oates said yesterday there was an offer on the property but the owners would not be available to consider it, or other offers, for a week – they would be tied up it seems.

When informed it was The Daily Telegraph on the phone, Mr Oates said he could not disclose when the property, which Mr Macdonald bought in 2007 for $675,000, came on the market.

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Mr Macdonald moved to Hong Kong with his wife last year – the same place his close mate Greg Jones moved around the same time after putting his house in Vaucluse on the market for $14 million.

The ICAC heard this week that a handwritten note by Mr Jones, seized by investigators, seemed to indicate payments that were to be paid to Mr Macdonald for decisions made by departments he oversaw when a minister.

Mr Macdonald is expected to be grilled over Mr Jones’s notes as well as allegations the granting of coal exploration licences may have benefited the family of former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.

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