Edward Obeid News Today

From Eddie Obeid to ‘Mr Ipswich’, state anti-corruption bodies have already shown how they can hold the powerful to account

The 77-year-old travelled to Silverwater jail after being sentenced to at least three years and 10 months in prison

Twelve years after The Australian Financial Review revealed Eddie Obeid’s coal windfall, he faces at least another three years prison.

Justice Elizabeth Fullerton, who presided over the case without a jury, heard from 38 witnesses in the year-long trial. Fullerton found that a conspiracy to ensure a mining licence was granted over Obeid’s property was proved beyond reasonable doubt. She found there was evidence that Moses Obeid had formed an agreement some time before May 2008 with Macdonald, and that Macdonald had then proceeded as minister for mineral resources to take steps to ensure that a mining exploration licence was ...