Celebrity chef Pete Evans is cosying up with the colorful characters behind a controversial commune-style development in Byron Bay’s hinterland.
A bankrupt property developer played a key role in striking a deal with the conspiracy theorist to spruik the land sharing development, which is called Nightcap.
The project’s “visionary” Adrian Brennock went bankrupt, and the former developer for whom he worked went into voluntary administration, in 2018, shortchanging investors more than $2 million in a separate failed commune development called Bhula Bhula, which marketed and sold some of the same land Brennock and Evans are currently promoting.
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NCV Enterprises, a Gold Coast company, swooped on the land after the former developer went into voluntary administration and Brennock declared bankruptcy.
Brennock’s wife Kristy, with two other players, Double Bay-based businessman Derek Zillman and Mark McMurtrie, effectively owns NCV Enterprises through a complex web of companies.
McMurtrie, also known by his Aboriginal skin name Gunham, famously cost taxpayers $507,749 in legal fees, as he pursued the Aboriginal and Torres…