Highly confidential departmental coal maps were found in the offices of the Obeid family during a raid by Independent Commission Against Corruption in November, 2011.

But Moses Obeid has told a corruption inquiry that he had never seen a particular map before and as far as he knew, ‘‘it might have have been drawn by Jesus Christ’’.

The inquiry has heard that the map, which showed coal deposits, had only been seen by a handful of departmental officers and that the then resources minister Ian Macdonald had been given a copy by his department.