THE gambling-addict daughter of an ex-RailCorp executive told her father to "burn, burn, burn" documents in her room after a raid by investigators, a corruption inquiry has heard.
In a tapped phone call between Joseph Camilleri and his daughter Jessica Adouni played at an Independent Commission Against Corruption hearing in Sydney, Ms Adouni is heard bullying her father to "do it now".
The call was secretly recorded just after an ICAC raid on Mr Camilleri's home.
That followed his sacking by RailCorp after he had tapped work colleagues for large loans to help his daughter.
ICAC heard on Wednesday that Mr Camilleri paid out more than $4 million over four years to his daughter despite her increasingly questionable claims for money, ostensibly to cover high legal costs for court cases and high bank fees.
He borrowed money from work colleagues and enlisted his sister Carmen Attard to also borrow money to help Ms Adouni.
The ICAC is investigating whether people who contributed to the $1.5 million Mr Camilleri and Ms Attard raised for Ms Adouni received any personal or professional benefit.
Mr Camilleri, who was on a $300,000 a year Railcorp salary, told the ICAC he consistently believed his daughter's reasons for needing money between 2008 and 2013 and only learned later of her gambling problem.
Counsel assisting the commission, Nicholas Polin, played the tapped phone call from August 2013 in which Ms Adouni is heard telling her father after the ICAC raid she wanted to "make sure there's nothing left".
"Dad, they will come back, don't be stupid.
"Any papers, burn, burn, burn, that's all you've got to do ... do it now."
Mr Camilleri denied he destroyed anything and agreed he had "blindly believed" his daughter's claims "all the way".
The ICAC heard her claims included an email to Mr Camilleri from a "Richard Dipshit" purporting to be Ms Adouni's lawyer, and a badly written letter purporting to be from an ASIO security chief about money in a bank account.
A later email from the purported lawyer apologised for the "Dipshit" reference, saying his grandson had been playing on his computer.
The ICAC heard Ms Adouni said that her identity had been stolen and was being used by other people to buy property overseas and that she then became embroiled in court cases over those matters.
Commissioner Megan Latham asked Mr Camilleri if he would have believed his daughter if she told him she was going to the US to marry Tom Cruise.
He said he wouldn't have.
Mr Polin put forward a long series of far-fetched claims by Ms Adouni to her father and asked Mr Camilleri if he was "incredibly stupid" or telling the truth.
Mr Camilleri said he may have been "very naive and had too much trust in my daughter" who was very convincing and "maybe I wanted to accept it".
"I'm very embarrassed, I'm ashamed of myself."
The hearing continues.
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