ICAC has heard property developer Ron Medich boasted of utilising his contact with a NSW minister

In evidence to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption today Tony Rowe, a former executive of electrical supplies company Rivercorp, said his then-business associate Ron Medich indicated he would be able to deliver government contracts to their business through former Energy Minister Ian Macdonald.

"Don't doubt my ability to utilise Macdonald to deliver opportunities to Rivercorp," Mr Medich allegedly told Mr Rowe in 2009.

ICAC is investigating whether Mr Macdonald accepted a night with a prostitute from Mr Medich in return for Mr Macdonald introducing Mr Medich to NSW energy executives he hoped would give his company government contracts.

In emails presented to ICAC, Mr Rowe wrote to a government lobbyist mentioning a new Energy Australia facility in Silverwater, with the words Ian Macdonald underlined.
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"Learning centre. $25 million, Ian Macdonald. Would love for RIV to get a crack at the job as a whole," it read.

Other emails showed that Rivercorp wanted a "walk up start" to avoid the tender process, with Mr Rowe admitting the company viewed Mr Macdonald as a "soft point" to government contracts.

Another former Rivercorp executive, Kim Shipley, told the inquiry that in one instance Mr Medich's business partner Lucky Gattellari arrived in the company's office with $200,000 in a Myer shopping bag in order to ensure the company could pay staff.

Mr Shipley testified that "Mr Medich had provided it to him."

Mr Shipley said he took $140,000 to make sure staff payments and sub-contractor payments were met, and Mr Gattellari left with the remaining money.

Mr Medich and Mr Gattellari are now charged with the murder of Sydney man Michael McGurk.

Both Mr Medich and Mr Gattellari joined Mr Macdonald and Country Energy executives at a dinner at which, it is alleged, Mr Macdonald was seated in sight of a table of prostitutes from which he chose a girl named "Tiffanie."

The two later met up a the Four Seasons hotel in the Rocks, where Tiffanie has testified the former Labor Minister "kissed her roughly."