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10 Jun 2014
CLIVE Palmer says Queensland's deputy premier is deliberately feeding false evidence to the state's corruption watchdog by claiming he demanded exclusive control of coal movements in the Galilee Basin.
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney will on Tuesday hand the Crime and Misconduct Commission a letter that allegedly shows Mr Palmer promised to drop legal cases against the government if it agreed to his demands, The Courier Mail reports.
The letter was reportedly given to Mr Seeney's senior staff early last year, before Mr Palmer became a federal MP and amid a bitter war between he and the government.
Mr Palmer says Mr Seeney and Premier Campbell Newman have made up the allegations to hurt him because he's suing the premier for defamation.
He warned Mr Seeney's deceitful actions could land him in legal hot water.
"It's a criminal act to refer an allegation to the CMC which you know to be untrue," Mr Palmer told AAP on Tuesday.
"The sooner he's thrown out of parliament the better."
Mr Seeney told The Courier-Mail he was appalled when his staff returned from a meeting at Mr Palmer's Mineralogy office with the list of demands from the former LNP donor and life member.
"I had told him four or five times to his face that we weren't going to treat him that way," he said.
"And I thought that this guy just doesn't get it."
Mr Seeney has previously said the police and the CMC were not told about the corruption allegations at the time they were allegedly made, but Mr Newman was.
The deputy premier has also conceded that he probably should have reported the matter at the time, rather than two years down the track.
Source: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/