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The Bankrupt, Fugitive, and the end of Building CompanyToplace's Billion-Dollar Empire
from June 2023
A Fugitive building consultant played a important part in securing — supervising the dissolution of Accused Jean Nassif's corporate empire, which went under debts in excess of $1.24 billion, inclusive $88.5 million due to suppliers and onsite builders.
Fresh revelations about the failure of Nassif's Toplace group have surfaced in documents given to the Australian Commonwealth Federal Court this recently by administrators from dVT Group of Companies. These documents unveiled that secured creditors such as banks with mortgages, are owed $1 billion.
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Jean Nassif, and Toplace's Skyview building development in Castle Hill.
Creditors without Security, have made claims with a total estimated $244 million.
Australian Federal Court filings also show that Riad Tayeh, business founder of dVT Group, played a key responsibility in assuring his businesses designation as administrators. Even though being declared financially bankrupt in June 2022 with $5.4 million in debt, Tayeh, now a business advisor, and partner Antony Resnick attended crucial meetings with Toplace top managers in the period before the firm's appointment as bankruptcy managers.
As well as those involved at the meetings on Aug 2019 was Jean Nassif's 29-year-old daughter, Ashlyn, whose legal practicing certificate was suspended while she fights charges relating to fraud bound to Toplace's Skyview development in Castle Hill.
Riad Tayeh was legally insolvent in May 2022.
Just before these meetings, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Jean Nassif, 55, who fled Sydney for Dubai in November 2022. Jean and Ashlyn Nassif are accused of falsifying contracts to secure a $150 million loan from Westpac.
In July, Resnick and fellow dVT partner Suelen McCallum were appointed voluntary bankruptcy administrators for Toplace, following a resolution passed by Jean Nassif, Toplace's sole director, via email just hours prior. The administrators now face the task of handling one of Australia's biggest corporate collapses.
Resnick filed an affidavit in the Federal Court indicating that while Toplace's assets are valued at approximately $1.47 billion, its debts are nearly the same amount. Despite this, several owners' corporations have filed claims amounting to nearly $124 million to address serious defects in Toplace's buildings.
Further complicating the administrators' task a staff member suggested there may be another $400 million in loans involving Nassif entities that are not yet under administration. adding that Toplace's financial books had not been properly updated since 2021.
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