Former RailCorp executive Joseph Camilleri was told to burn documents by his daughter. Source: AAP
THE gambling-addict daughter of a former RailCorp executive told her father to "burn, burn, burn" documents in her room after a raid by investigators, a corruption inquiry has heard.
But the executive, Joe Camilleri, maintains the loans were personal and did not buy former employees favours.
In a tapped phone call played at an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearing in Sydney, Jessica Adouni is heard urging her father to "do it now".
The call was secretly recorded just after an ICAC raid on Mr Camilleri's home.
That followed his sacking by RailCorp after he had tapped work colleagues for large loans to help his daughter.
The ICAC heard on Wednesday that Mr Camilleri paid out more than $4 million over four years to his daughter, despite her increasingly questionable claims for money, which were supposedly to cover high legal costs and bank fees.
He borrowed money from work colleagues and enlisted his sister Carmen Attard to also borrow money to help Ms Adouni.
The ICAC is investigating whether people who contributed to the $1.5 million Mr Camilleri and Ms Attard raised for Ms Adouni received any personal or professional benefit.
Mr Camilleri told the ICAC he believed his daughter's reasons for needing money between 2008 and 2013, and only learnt later of her gambling problem.
He repeatedly denied he acted corruptly or favourably towards those who lent him money, despite some working for firms that were later involved in RailCorp tender processes.
Counsel assisting the commission Nicholas Polin played the phone call from August 2013 in which Ms Adouni was heard telling her father after the ICAC raid she wanted to "make sure there's nothing left".
"Dad, they will come back, don't be stupid.
"Any papers, burn, burn, burn, that's all you've got to do ... do it now."
Mr Camilleri denied destroying anything.
Mr Polin repeatedly asked Mr Camilleri if he was a liar after he denied to RailCorp investigators he had borrowed money from people working in organisations that had business with RailCorp.
"I wasn't lying at the time, but it can be perceived as a lie, yes," Mr Camilleri said.
Evidence tendered to the ICAC included an email to Mr Camilleri from a "Richard Dipshit" purporting to be Ms Adouni's lawyer, and a badly written letter claiming to be from an ASIO security chief about money in a bank account.
A later email from the purported lawyer apologised for the "Dipshit" reference, saying his grandson had been using his computer.
The ICAC heard Ms Adouni said her identity had been stolen and was being used by people to buy property overseas.
Mr Polin asked Mr Camilleri if he was "incredibly stupid" or telling the truth.
Mr Camilleri said he might have been "very naive and had too much trust in my daughter".
The hearing continues.
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