Warwick Watkins misled ICAC land sale investigation Warwick Watkins enters the Downing Centre Courts in Sydney. FORMER NSW property chief Warwick Watkins yesterday pleaded guilty to two charges of attempting to mislead the Independent Commission against Corruption over the sale of land on the Northern Beaches. Watkins is contesting two further charges of using a false document for his role in the sale of the $12 million Currawong union holiday retreat on Pittwater. Former premier Kristina Keneally and former Labor minister Tony Kelly are epected to give evidence at this week's trial at the Downing Centre Local Court. Watkins was the first person to be charged out of the ICAC hearing into the sale of the land in 2011 while he was CEO of the NSW Land and Property Management Authority. The land was bought from a property developer who had purchased it from the union movement. Once the investigation was launched, Mr Kelly is alleged to have backdated a letter to suggest the sale had ministerial approval when it did not. The letter was allegedly then used to mislead the investigators. All four charges against Watkins relate to the letter.