The seizure varieties additionally file bundles of money in Australian, US and Lebanese forex, present in cabinets and designer purses in the primary bed room.
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The NSW Crime Fee early this month launched a forfeiture discover for $190,000 and nearly $10,000 price of US payments.
Jean’s former spouse, Nisserine, had for months been quietly vying to get well the cash, saying it was gifted to her from family and friends and was leftover “allowance” from her developer husband.
She put the determine at $250,000 in a letter to police.
Nisserine, also called Nissy, informed the courts her former husband “left for Lebanon” in December 2022 and has not returned to Australia. They separated the identical month police raided the household residence, she added.
“I separated from my husband in mid-February 2023, my husband and I stay separated. We won’t recommence our relationship,” she wrote in an affidavit in August.
Nissy Nassif together with her kids earlier this yr.Credit score: Instagram
“My husband at present lives in Lebanon. From numerous information experiences, I’m conscious he’s wished by police by advantage of excellent warrants in his title. There are numerous issues I’ve examine within the media about Toplace developments.”
However Nisserine stated she was not beneath any police investigation herself.
The cash was necessary to her, she stated within the affidavit, as she was the only real supplier for her three kids and had “restricted monetary assist”.
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Nisserine’s attorneys wrote to NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and the officer accountable for the raid, in a June e-mail seen by the Herald, saying Jean had left his household in a “dire monetary scenario”.
Police replied that the true proprietor of the cash was unclear and Jean might have an curiosity.
“The monies have been discovered by NSW Police in our shopper’s private purses and garments pockets,” Nisserine’s attorneys replied.
“Certainly it’s not recommended that Mr Nassif carries purses or wears our shopper’s garments.”
The attorneys once more insisted Nisserine wouldn’t rekindle the connection with Jean, so the cash wouldn’t be “misused or diverted to any particular person of curiosity”.
A part of the cash, they added, got here from Nisserine’s profession as an occasion co-ordinator, and from playing winnings.
The attorneys warned police they might bill them for $50,000 in authorized payments if the matter went to courtroom – which it did in mid-December.
Nisserine was not in courtroom on December 14 when her software was withdrawn and dismissed.
Jean Nassif stays on the run abroad, and is believed to maneuver between South-East Asia and the Center East.
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