ICAC Operation Rosny LIVE updates: Jean Nassif, Matthew Blackmore set to give evidence

Let’s flash back to Peggy Dwyer, SC’s opening adress to the corruption inquiry, when we heard for the first time phone intercepts gathered by their police during their investigation into Jean Nassif.

In a call with Jean-Claude Perrottet, younger brother of Dominic, Nassif complains about then-building commissioner David Chandler and MP David Elliott, who Nassif felt stood in the way of his projects. Perrottet sympathises with Nassif and says “he’s just out to get you, David Elliott”.

Nassif was recorded boasting that the Liberal Party’s right wing had announced that “Jean Nassif is our godfather”, and that David Elliott “lost it”. In the calls, Nassif says he has “covered himself politically”.