Sacked official cleared on MP's son link A FORMER senior Queensland government official accused of misleading a parliamentary committee over business links with an MP's son has been cleared of wrongdoing. The state ethics committee found there was no evidence of contempt against transport director-general Michael Caltabiano, a former Liberal MP and Liberal party state president. Mr Caltabiano was investigated after it was claimed he misleading the Transport, Housing and Local Government Committee in October 2012 over his links with Ben Gommers. He had hired Gommers, the son of former Arts Minister Ros Bates, into a high-paid job in his department. Links later emerged between himself and a lobbying business, Entree Vous, founded by Mr Gommers and his mother. He was dismissed by premier Campbell Newman in February, though the administration has denied his sacking was linked to the investigation. "The committee finds that there is no evidence that Mr Caltabiano, then chief executive officer of the Department of Transport and Main Roads deliberately misled the Transport, Housing and Local Government Committee on 18 October 2012," the ethics committee concluded in a report tabled on Thursday. The committee recommends that the house take no further action in regard to the matter of the alleged contempt. In a submission to the ethics committee, Mr Caltabiano said "it cannot be established that there was any professional relationship between [himself] and Mr Gommers" and "that there was at most a limited personal relationship between them. A supporting statement from Entree Vous accountant Tom Coogan said that Mr Gommers was named as a director of the company simply because he was a family member and never actually did any work for it. The firm was sold when Ms Bates was elected in 2009. Mr Gommers quit his government post in May. A separate investigation into Mr Caltabiano by the Crime and Misconduct Commission has led to information being passed to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Mr Caltabiano has always denied the allegations.