CFMEU put Bandidos bikie on its governing board

The CFMEU assigned a senior Bandidos bikie enforcer to work as a union organiser on major Victorian government construction projects and to sit on the governing board of the John Setka-led branch, a role he was allowed to keep even after he was charged over a violent assault.

Marty Albert, who is facing charges over a pub bashing at Geelong with two other senior Bandidos bikies last year, quit the CFMEU Victoria’s management committee on July 12, a day before The Australian Financial Review, The Age and 60 Minutes started publishing a joint investigation into the union and its infiltration by bikies and organised crime. Mr Setka resigned on the same day.