Australia’s former top corporate law-enforcement officer, James Shipton, recorded a tense conversation with his deputy Karen Chester, in which she asked him to lobby senior business leaders to help repair her reputation and stated she could have “destroyed” his career.

In the nine-minute audio recording, Ms Chester accused Mr Shipton of harming herself and others, and makes four allegations against him, which he described as “very serious”. The accusations were edited from a 12-minute recording of the video meeting Mr Shipton provided to The Australian Financial Review on Wednesday.