Police allege the high-ranking official boasted to corrupt building firms that he could secure them lucrative jobs on construction projects financed by superannuation giant Cbus.
A high-ranking CFMEU official is alleged to have boasted to corrupt building firms that he could secure them lucrative contracts on major construction projects financed by superannuation giant Cbus because of his influence with insiders at the super fund.
Separately, new evidence has emerged of “ghosting” on government sites in Victoria, with never-before-released excerpts of a covertly recorded discussion with a self-styled CFMEU fixer claiming he was working with firms getting paid for non-existent workers. “And the union, you know this, they push the work longer … ‘Leave it there … leave the boys there. Don’t worry about it’.“And then they ring him and say, ‘Listen, go to this site as well, put four boys there. But only put two, but we invoice for four’ … You take one, we take one.”Asked “so no one’s pretty much auditing anything?”, Korras points to how long the government’s Big Build projects take, ranging from three to 10 years.
According to official documents sighted by this masthead, NSW investigators allege Greenfield senior told a building company owner he would exert his influence over Cbus in 2019 to ensure the super giant instructed the lead contractor to use subcontractors favoured by the CFMEU. Around 12 per cent of Cbus’ default MySuper option is invested in property, of which around 85 per cent is unlisted.
In a development unrelated to the police inquiry, this masthead can reveal CFMEU officials pushed for the appointment of Simon Gutierrez, a convicted drug dealer, as union delegate on a different Cbus and Scentre Group joint venture development.In his position as the delegate on the redevelopment of the former David Jones in the Sydney CBD Gutierrez can influence which sub-contractors are hired on the project.
It comes as Victoria’s shadow cabinet on Monday ticked off on a private member’s bill which would effectively ban construction companies whose employees have links to organised crime and outlaw motorcycle gangs from winning lucrative government contracts
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