Former NSW cabinet minister Eleni Petinos told the corruption inquiry yesterday that she was “disgusted” by the thought of being used in a plot orchestrated by a disgraced developer to drive outspoken building commissioner David Chandler from office.

Chandler and David Elliott, who will give evidence today, were two of Jean Nassif’s major enemies around 2022, when he saw the men as standing in the way of his developments.

Petinos described repeated attempts by several Liberal Party operatives to undermine Chandler, including senior political staffer Chris Spence.

A defiant Petinos told the corruption watchdog that she now realises Spence, a close friend and the chief of staff to then-planning minister Anthony Roberts, had used her to try to have Chandler removed.

“Frankly, even the little I knew coming into here today is enough to leave me disgusted and to feel like personal relationships were leant on in a highly improper way, and that’s not someone that you would call a friend,” she said.

Read the full recap of Petinos’s evidence here.