A CFMEU organiser has told an inquiry how he was tasked with helping bikies secure lucrative union jobs on taxpayer-funded building projects in Victoria, including finding work for a parolee who had been released after serving six years for manslaughter at a bikie clubhouse.
Paul Tzimas, a former organiser with John Setka’s Victorian branch, also detailed how underworld figure Mick Gatto handed gold bracelets to him and other officials, and represented a developer in mediation over a brutal workplace assault on Tzimas and another organiser at a site.
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