https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-22/judge-orders-eddie-obeid-to-prison-after-...Judge denies disgraced former NSW Labor
minister Eddie Obeid's bail, orders him to prison
By court reporter Jamelle Wells
Posted 15h ago
15 hours ago
, updated 5h ago
Former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid has been ordered to go to jail on Saturday morning after being convicted over a mine licence conspiracy.
Key points:
Eddie Obeid's lawyers complained his serious health issues meant he could contract COVID-19
The judge said there were no "exceptional circumstances" which warranted permanent bail
Obeid will be required to go straight to Silverwater prison by 10am on Saturday
Obeid, 77, was on Thursday given a minimum sentence of three years and 10 months for conspiring over a coal licence for his family farm in the Bylong Valley, when his Labor colleague Ian Macdonald was Resources Minister.
The rigged tender gave the Obeid family a $30 million windfall.
Macdonald, 72, was jailed for at least five years and three months and Obeid's son Moses, 53, was jailed for at least three years.
Lawyers for all three men immediately told justice Elizabeth Fullerton they were lodging appeals against their convictions.
She told Eddie Obeid he does not have to go to the Surry Hills Police Centre, but must go straight to Silverwater Jail with his solicitor by 10am on Saturday.