New detail in lawyer’s alleged $150m fraud

New detail in lawyer’s alleged 0m fraud

A glamorous lawyer and daughter of a controversial property developer accused of utilizing faux contracts to safe a $150m mortgage has confronted court docket.

Ashlyn Nassif, 27, is accused of falsifying $10.5m in pre-sale contracts for the event of the $900m Sky View house advanced in northwest Sydney.

The associate of regulation agency EA Legal is but to enter pleas after she was charged with dishonestly acquiring monetary benefit by deception and publishing false or deceptive materials.

She was granted bail in March with $2.6m secured by her household with initially strict bail situations.

But now, these situations have been relaxed.

Wearing a black fur coat, Nassif appeared at Burwood Local Court, the placeMagistrate Vivien Margaret Swain relaxed her bail situations.

The court docket heard her 6am-12am curfew was scrapped and he or she is required to report back to Burwood Police Station 5 occasions every week as a substitute of every day — not needing to take action on weekends.

Magistrate Grogan earlier advised Downing Centre Local Court the allegations in opposition to Ms Nassif had been “extremely serious” given Ms Nassif was within the place of a authorized practitioner within the NSW Supreme Court, the big sum of money concerned and it “seems to be part of a sophisticated and planned situation”.

The alleged fraud relates particularly to a few of the 5 Skyview towers, which encompass about 960 “luxurious” residences.

Under Nassif’s bail situations, she shouldn’t be allowed to contact 24 folks linked to the alleged fraud, should reside at her mom’s Chiswick house and abide by a curfew of 6am to 9pm.

Her property developer father is among the many folks she can’t contact, however there isn’t any suggestion he’s concerned in any wrongdoing.

Ms Nassif has needed to give up her passport.

In 2019, Ashlyn’s father, Jean, Nassif went viral on social media for gifting his 34-year-old spouse Nissering “Nissy”’ Nassif a $480,000 Lamborghini.

Last 12 months, Mr Nassif had his improvement licence suspended for 10 years by NSW Fair Trading in December and his firm Toplace completely blacklisted after being discovered responsible of improper conduct.

But on January 10, he gained a keep of the ban within the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal till a assessment of that call takes place.

Toplace and Mr Nassif can hold working within the meantime, however can’t tackle new contracts with out approval from NCAT and the Commissioner of Fair Trading, the tribunal beforehand heard.

Ms Nassif’s case will return to court docket on June 14.

Source: www.news.com.au