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Mirvac execs to testify in corruption case
The trial of a former Mirvac project manager and an ex-union boss accused of corruption is to hear evidence from the construction company’s senior executives.
November 1, 2019
Senior Mirvac executives are expected to give evidence at a trial that’s heard a former project manager allegedly had tradies build a union boss’s plush Brisbane home and bill the work to a large shopping centre development.
Mathew Jason McAllum, 43, and former CFMEU Queensland senior vice-president David Arthur Hanna, 55, are accused of corruptly giving and receiving a secret commission for work done to complete the five-bedroom, three-bathroom Cornubia home.
Both men deny the charge, which the Brisbane District Court has heard stems from $290,000 worth of building works between February and November 2013.
This included concreting, bricklaying, plastering, tiling and interior design after Hanna used family friend, Shane Dalby, to build the shell of the 480 square metre home, prosecutor Mark Whitbread said.
The court heard McAllum allegedly told tradies to submit false invoices for a project at the Orion shopping centre in Springfield that they were already working on.
The end result was Hanna received construction work for free, Mr Whitbread said.
The trial is due to hear from the Mirvac executives when it continues on Friday.