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KATE CAMPBELLThe West Australian The uncle of a former senior council manager, who took is life after the corruption watch dog started investigating a $5 million building rort, has admitted

his nephew told him to use a fake name to gain work with the council to avoid any family connection being made. Giving evidence at the Corruption and Crime Commission hearing into the City

of Stirling swindle, the man said his nephew, the council's former building co-ordinator, told him to use a different last name on a tender document for a job at the Balga PCYC. The

man's name cannot be published because he shares the same surname as his nephew, whose name the CCC has suppressed. Bayswater Gas and Maintenance, which is now run by the man's

sons, was awarded $1.2 million worth of City of Stirling work from 2003 to 2009, the hearing was told today. The man today testified he had used a false name to gain work at another company

his nephew used to work at and conceded to the watch dog he had been involved in deceitful conduct. He told the corruption probe his business gave his nephew 24 hour use of a $50,000 utility

vehicle because Bayswater Gas and Maintenance was using his builder registration number. But he denied giving his nephew a tractor as another sweetener. But, the hearing heard the building

boss, who was sacked from the council earlier this year for suspected misconduct before committing suicide on Barrow Island in September, sold the tractor in April this year that his uncle

had bought. The man rejected claims he billed the City of Stirling for any works not done, or inflated invoices to the council. Counsel assisting the CCC Sean O'Sullivan told the

hearing that Bayswater Gas and Maintenance charged the City of Stirling for removing septic tanks at Mt Lawley Tennis Club on three occasions, when the club was connected to deep sewerage in

the 1970s. The man was adamant the work had been done and denied any of those invoices were faked in order to pay for sewer works at one of his son's properties. In a secretly recorded

phone conversation between the man and his nephew played today, the ex-council manager tells his uncle the City of Stirling auditor was "still snooping around" and looking into

Bayswater Gas and Maintenance. The CCC inquiry has this week uncovered evidence the council manager, who worked for the City of Stirling for seven years, asked for and received a variety of

kickbacks from contractors, from a car to overseas holidays and home renovations, telling them to inflate invoices to the council to recoup the cost. The hearing continues. GET THE LATEST

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