A high-profile ex-MP has been jailed for 10 months for misleading a corruption probe about potential profits from a major property deal.

But former NSW MP Daryl Maguire only spent about an hour in custody before being granted bail to appeal the sentence handed out on Wednesday.

The man best known for his secret relationship with Gladys Berejiklian while she was state premier declined to comment as he left Sydney's Central Local Court.

The 66-year-old was found guilty in June of giving misleading evidence at a 2018 Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into a Sydney council.

The misleading evidence canvassed Maguire's dealings with former Canterbury City councillor Michael Hawatt on a potential property development, in which Maguire could have received about $720,000 in comm

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