One of three Liberal Party figures on the run from the law is hiding out in a remote forest that straddles the NSW-Victorian border where he has been spotted “in a mask”, an inquiry has heard.

The controversial property developer at the heart of the scandal involving two of NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s brothers has had his business and luxury Sydney waterfront home raided by police.

One of two “lobbying” firms named by a NSW parliamentary inquiry — which is currently running a statewide manhunt for three “missing” Liberal Party figures — is owned by the sister-in-law of NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet.

A string of Liberal Party members — two of them on the run from the law — are allegedly behind a secretive, far-right “Christian” group created to influence “public policy” inline with an extreme sect of Catholicism.