Secret police recordings of more than 1000 calls made from prison helped unravel George Alex’s sprawling and corrupt labour hire empire.
Senior CFMEU figures secretly helped organised crime kingpin George Alex build a sprawling and corrupt labour hire empire, despite repeated warnings he was an underworld figure who had previously bribed union officials and ripped off both workers and the Tax Office.as part of an illegal scheme that federal police found relied on Alex’s success “leveraging contacts in the trade unions” and inside large building companies.
A key task facing the CFMEU’s administrator, Mark Irving, KC, will be examining the Alex empire’s union networks, as well as EBAs that he or his associates helped obtain for labour hire and traffic management firms in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Last month, Greenfield was one of 11 high-ranking union executives sacked by Irving, who also terminated the roles of more than 200 unpaid union officials.
Chad Bragdon, another ex-CFMEU Queensland official, was made a director of another GHRC franchisee at the same time, and also, according to the police, a director in name only. Although the commission recommended prosecutors consider charges against Alex and the union bribe-taker no case was ever filed because the Director of Public Prosecutions couldn’t use key royal commission evidence in any subsequent criminal case.
The phone taps, along with other evidence, led police to suspect that Ibrahim gave Alex between $1 million to $3 million in dirty money to clean via his labour hire firms, front companies and various bank accounts.Police were also secretly listening when Alex plotted with disgraced New Zealand businessman Mark Bryers – who was also convicted for his role in the Alex-led financial crime ring.
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