Macdonald will appeal inquiry findings Protesting his innocence: Ian MacDonald. The disgraced former minister Ian Macdonald has signalled he will appeal any adverse findings by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, as its third probe into his ministerial conduct draws to a close. "I have not been guilty of anything," Mr Macdonald declared to the press outside the commission on Friday morning. When the evidence is finally assessed I will not be found guilty of any wrongdoing. After seven months of public hearings involving three separate corruption allegations, the ICAC's public investigation into a multimillion-dollar coal licence directly awarded to ex-union boss John Maitland finished on Friday. Mr Macdonald was repeatedly accused of being a liar by counsel assisting the commission, Peter Braham SC, and he denied "gifting ... hot property to a mate." Outside the hearing, Mr Macdonald said he still believed the so-called "training mine" was a genuine and worthwhile undertaking. "I believe this has been a very sensationalist process in which a lot of things have been said which, contrary to what has been written, have been found, in the actual evidence, to be inaccurate and false," he said. I will be certainly pursuing all angles and all areas that I can do to ensure that justice is done in this. The commission will briefly reopen its inquiry into Eddie Obeid and his family on Monday to take evidence from three other Labor politicians about Mr Obeid's claim that Mr Macdonald had not been in his office in 20 years of politics. The ICAC's reports into four of its corruption probes will be released from July onwards.