Ms Tilley, who was not at fault in the May 2014 accident, was driving Ms Cunneen's work car. Tow truck driver Ben de Jonk. It was this conversation, which occurred two days after the accident, which sparked a corruption investigation into whether Ms Cunneen had attempted to pervert the course of justice. Fairfax Media can reveal that Ms Cunneen was talking to tow truck driver Ben de Jonk, whose phone was being intercepted by the Australian Crime Commission as part of an investigation into drugs and money laundering. Mr de Jonk, 33, co-owns a panel beating shop in Artarmon with members of the Geokjian family.

One of Mr de Jonk's former panel beating partners is Vahe "Wayne" Geokjian, who was jailed for four-and-half years in 2009 after pleading guilty to the importation of almost two kilograms of cocaine hidden inside the brake drum of a Volvo truck. Mr Geokjian also pleaded guilty to cannabis and firearm offences. Crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen, SC. Credit:Peter Rae When police arrested Mr Geokjian in 2007 they also found two loaded pistols and a .22 rifle with a silencer attached. Mr de Jonk has not been charged with any offence. Fairfax Media has previously revealed excerpts of two conversations caught on tape by the crime commission show Ms Cunneen told Mr de Jonk she had sent a message to Ms Tilley to "start having chest pains" to avoid a breath test at the scene of the accident.

Ms Tilley, a P-plate driver, was not allowed to drive with any alcohol in her system. She admitted that she had consumed alcohol prior to the motor vehicle accident. In the second intercepted call, Ms Cunneen told Mr de Jonk that the "chest pains" had "bought her a few more hours". Ms Tilley returned a zero blood alcohol reading when eventually tested at the hospital. New details show that Mr de Jonk and Ms Cunneen were both at the accident scene. The phone intercepts reveal that Mr de Jonk called his mate, smash repairer George Kharadjian​, who was at the Willoughby Hotel, to tell him Ms Cunneen's car had been involved in the accident. He then put Mr Kharadjian, who is one of Ms Cunneen's local drinking buddies, on the phone to speak to Ms Cunneen himself. "I could get away with a member of my family [driving]. I am just hoping she hasn't had a f---ing drink," Ms Cunneen said to Mr Kharadjian.

In a new twist, the phone taps – which Ms Cunneen is trying to prevent from becoming public – suggest Ms Cunneen – one of NSW's most senior legal figures – knew Mr de Jonk prior to the accident and that they planned to meet for a drink. In the conversation on the night of the accident, Ms Cunneen handed the phone back to Mr de Jonk, who told Mr Kharadjian of the conversation he'd had with Ms Cunneen's son, Stephen Wyllie, at the scene of the accident. He said he'd remarked to Mr Wyllie that it was a government car to which Mr Wyllie said: "I'd rather not say who my mum is" and Mr de Jonk replied, "I know your mum". Mr de Jonk instigated the second conversation with Ms Cunneen, which took place just before midday on June 2, 2014. Much of the conversation was about praying to St Anthony, to whom many Catholics pray for miracles and help finding lost items.

"You know I have been so worried about it. I have been praying to my favourite saint, St Anthony, ever since [both laugh]." Ms Cunneen said that Ms Tilley "is praying too ... I'm not sure how severe they get on a .01 or a .02 [blood alcohol reading] and you should be nothing. Theoretically, she might be liable for the whole lot." Mr de Jonk finished the conversation saying, "Nice to see you again but yeah not on that occasion." Ms Cunneen replied: "Yeah, yeah. That's right. Next time we'll have a beer and won't drive home." Mr de Jonk: "Willoughby pub and yeah, all right."

Ms Cunneen: "And we'll all be safe. Thanks Ben, see ya." In a brief conversation with Fairfax Media on Wednesday, Mr de Jonk said that he had met Ms Cunneen once prior to the accident. Asked if he had ever been to the pub with Ms Cunneen, Mr de Jonk said, "I can't remember." Earlier in the day he had threatened to "kick the shit out of" the car of a Fairfax photographer, which was outside Prestige Auto Body Repairs. For her part Ms Cunneen says she has never heard of Mr de Jonk. "I've never spoken to him on the phone either." The senior prosecutor also said, "I don't know him at all" and that she had only met him "on that single occasion".

"I was terribly distressed at the time, to arrive at that scene with ambulances, multiple police cars and fire brigade all in attendance and the cars obviously write-offs, as the many eye witnesses can attest." Ms Cunneen has previously told News Corp she might have jokingly referred to Ms Tilley's "fake chest pains" with Mr Kharadjian . In December Mr Kharadjian told Fairfax Media "I've known Margaret for years just through the area. We drink at the same pub." He said that after the accident he'd had a "tongue-in-cheek conversation with Margaret about Sophia's fake boobs." Asked how this topic had come up, Mr Kharadjian said, "Because when I first met Sophia – she was in the pub and Margaret and I were just having a laugh about her fake boobs." Ms Cunneen is fighting the potential release of the phone taps tapes by a NSW parliamentary inquiry examining ICAC's investigation of Ms Cunneen, which it was forced to abandon after the High Court ruled it was beyond its jurisdiction.

The inquiry is seeking legal advice about its powers to publicly release the tapes, which were tabled by ICAC commissioner Megan Latham in defence of the agency's decision to investigate.