Transport and Main Roads Director-General Micahel Caltabiano appears at the Estimates Committee Hearing. Picture: Philip Norrish Source: The Courier-Mail
A CRIME and Misconduct Commission investigation into key appointments at Transport and Main Roads is not even close to being finalised almost four months after it began, a senior government source has revealed.
The department's director-general Michael Caltabiano remains stood down on full pay, pocketing an estimated $10,000 a week (before tax).
Since standing aside in late October, Mr Caltabiano has earned close to $150,000 of his $480,000-a-year salary.
The former Liberal MP stepped down when he was referred to the parliamentary Ethics Committee by Minister Scott Emerson for allegedly misinforming an estimates hearing about his work history.
The committee has suspended its investigation until the CMC inquiry is complete.
The long-running investigation is looking at the appointment shortly after the Newman Government was elected last year of Benjamin Gommers, son of Arts Minister Ros Bates.
He was made a senior departmental liaison officer at the Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Other appointments in the department may also be under investigation.
Mr Caltabiano's diary has been obtained by the CMC for examination.
Investigators have also been asked to look at the omission of two meetings from the diary when it was supplied to the Opposition under Right to Information laws.
Further documents released to The Courier-Mail under RTI show the extent of access Mr Caltabiano gave to clients of his friend, lobbyist Santo Santoro.
At a lunchtime meeting on May 28, 2012, Mr Caltabiano met with 21 of Mr Santoro's clients - mostly from commercial development firms.
Details of the meeting were originally left out of the diary along with another on September 13, at which Mr Caltabiano hosted 17 clients of Santo Santoro Consulting.
Mr Caltabiano was the only government representative at the meetings, also attended by Mr Santoro.
The stood-aside director-general held at least six other meetings with SSC clients.
Mr Santoro has previously defended Mr Caltabiano as a "brilliant director-general" who was scrupulously honest.
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