Claiming overtime while enjoying free sex was all in a day’s work for a former Willoughby Council employee, the NSW corruption watchdog has found.

Edward Karkowski, a former building inspector and development officer, engaged in corrupt conduct by accepting free massages, sexual services, food and other items and and cash from business owners in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) stated today.

Took sex for favours ... Edward Karkowski outside the ICAC hearing yesterday. Credit:Ben Rushton

Mr Karkowski failed to tell Willoughby Council that the Oriana Bath House was illegally operating as a brothel because he was receiving free sexual services there, ICAC said.

The corruption watchdog also heard Mr Karkowski had claimed, and been paid, overtime while he was having sex at the bath house on the evening of July 6 last year.