Plea comes after administrators were appointed to Nassif’s firm Toplace while he remains subject to an arrest warrant

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The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has urged the controversial Sydney developer Jean Nassif to submit to authorities as his company collapses, a month after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Specialist accountants DVT Group has been appointed as external administrators of the Nassif-owned company, Toplace, which is responsible for constructing several projects in Sydney with structural defects.