Fugitive property developer won’t give evidence this week to Icac – as it happened

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Fugitive property developer Jean Nassif has withdrawn from a scheduled video appearance at the NSW Icac later this week, just days after the corruption watchdog announced he would appear. As evidence from witness Charles Perrottet concluded this afternoon, counsel assisting the commission, Dr Peggy Dwyer SC, said: double quotation markMr Nassif was scheduled to give evidence in this public inquiry via video link this Friday. However, he has provided the commission with a medical certificate, and his appearance has now been rescheduled to later in the public inquiry. It comes less than a week after Icac announced that Nassif, who fled Australia for rural Lebanon in 2022 after a NSW parliamentary inquiry which preceded Icac’s investigation, would appear. Icac is investigating the allegation that Liberal figures including Charles Perrottet anticipated receiving $2m in prohibited political donations from Nassif in exchange for political outcomes that would benefit his developments. Perrottet, who has been asked this afternoon about a 2021 dinner meeting with Nassif at Nobu in Melbourne, has denied he ever asked Nassif for pa