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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Kat Wong and Penry Buckley

Fugitive developer brags about holding 52% of NSW government’s power in tapped call played to Icac

Jean Nassif
Jean Nassif told a NSW Icac inquiry ‘I’m going to speak my heart’ as he gave evidence from Lebanon. Photograph: ICAC

The fugitive property developer Jean Nassif has bragged about taking down his political foes and bolstering the right wing of the Liberal party in calls played to the New South Wales corruption watchdog, as he vowed to “speak [his] heart” at his much-anticipated appearance.

Nassif, 58, appeared on Monday at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry via video link from Lebanon.

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