Comanchero Jake Boyer, won work on troubled state prison project
An investigation has revealed that a plastering company linked to gangland figures and former Comanchero bikies secured subcontracts on major Victorian government infrastructure projects. The report highlights concerns over the effectiveness of the government's construction industry clean-up efforts.
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It raises serious questions about government oversight and the potential infiltration of organized crime into public infrastructure spending.
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Share A A A The gangland infiltration of Labor’s Big Build has now spread to the infrastructure scheme’s prison expansion program and a social housing project opened by Premier Jacinta Allan in her Bendigo seat.
A CFMEU-backed plastering company run by two underworld and bikie gang-linked brothers secured a lucrative subcontract on the $94 million 94-bed expansion of the Hopkins Correctional Centre in Ararat.
Jake Boyer and Zack Boyer. Instagram The plastering operation website claims it also worked on the $44 million 73-apartment St Andrews social housing project Allan officially opened in March as part of Labor’s $5.3 billion Big Housing Build.
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