Underworld figure Mick Gatto attended CFMEU meeting after construction site assaults, Big Build royal commission told
Summary
Former CFMEU official Paul Tzimas told Victoria’s Big Build royal commission that underworld figure Mick Gatto attended a meeting after Tzimas and a colleague were seriously assaulted at a construction site. Tzimas also described receiving a gold bracelet from Gatto and gave evidence about union activity linked to the Gap Road level crossing project.Key Facts
- Tzimas said an assault left him with a fractured ankle and his colleague with a broken eye socket, dental damage, severe PTSD and partial vision loss.
- He said the assault may have involved people linked to an outlaw bikie gang; the article gave no details about when or where it occurred.
- About a week after the assault, builders arranged for Gatto to attend a meeting with union officials, Tzimas told the commission.
- Tzimas said he accepted a gold bracelet from Gatto after initially refusing it, and said he never wore it.
- Tzimas said he knew other union officials had also received gold bracelets from Gatto.
- He said 11 of 15 men named during his testimony were both union members and affiliated with bikie gangs.
- The commission is examining the Gap Road level crossing project in Sunbury, where union action halted construction.
- At a meeting on 7 June 2022, the union demanded that its health and safety representative and affiliated traffic management and labour hire firms be installed before work resumed, the commission has previously heard.
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