NSW: Fire Brigade staff lavished with gifts for work: ICAC told

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2008
NSW: Fire Brigade staff lavished with gifts for work: ICAC told

(EDS: Corrects name of architect)





The Independent Commission Against Corruption has been told two Fire Brigade contractors
received lavish lunches and expensive electrical goods .. for giving work to a Sydney
architect.

An ICAC inquiry is investigating the allocation of six million dollars in contracts
by former project managers CHRISTIAN SANHUEZA and CLIVE TAYLOR.

The inquiry has been shown one of two laptop computers with a combined total of seven
thousand-500 dollars .. and two of four flat-screen televisions worth a total of 22-thousand-800
dollars.

The goods were bought for Mr TAYLOR and Mr SANHUEZA by consultant architect RASEM GUIRGUIS.

The inquiry has also been told Mr GUIRGUIS took Mr TAYLOR and Mr SANHUEZA to lunch
at the exclusive Sydney restaurant Level 41 .. picking up the 664-dollar tab.

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KEYWORD: ICAC FIRE (SYDNEY)

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