The builder accused of hiring bikies through a security company to take on the CFMEU in Queensland has donated thousands to the LNP this year, including the day it was named as a contractor from Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games stadium.

BMD Group is now facing mounting scrutiny over its handling of CCTV evidence and evidence linking company executives to alleged Comancheros associates.

The startling revelations against BMD heard at the CFMEU commission of inquiry prompted a rare intervention from the union’s administrator, who slammed the builders’ ties to bikies as morally repugnant.

CFMEU administrator Michael Crosby said: “BMD is the only company to have been awarded a contract for the Olympics.

“The administration is tasked with removing all unlawful activity or use of violence. We expect the employers to be held to the same level of accountability.”

The Courier-Mail can reveal BMD has made multiple donations to the LNP in 2026, including $4800 the day the contract was announced for the stadium.

The CFMEU commission of inquiry has heard startling claims this week that BMD hired security firm Host Group, which in turn allegedly flew bikies in from Melbourne to threaten a worker at the Centenary Bridge construction site in 2024.

Members of BMD have repeatedly met with LNP government ministers this year, according to ministerial diaries, with more than $8,000 donated in 2026.

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie, the Minister for Infrastructure and Industrial Relations, would not say if the government would return donations from BMD or consider taking action against the builder to ensure the Victoria Park worksite had no bikie presence.

He said the government was putting an end to the “violence, intimidation and thuggery that was allowed to flourish on worksites under the former Labor government”.

“And we’ll consider the advice and recommendations of the commission of inquiry, not the CFMEU,” he said.

The inquiry this week heard Host Group boss Gary Samuel escorted Comancheros members Bemir Saracevic and Krstomir Bjelogrlic and former member Mark Ahern to the Centenary Bridge on June 5, 2024.

BMD human resources manager Steve Thomas was also stopped by police in a routine traffic check while he was with alleged Comancheros member William Samra on August 28, 2025.

In police bodyworn camera footage played to the inquiry, Mr Samra told officers he and Mr Thomas worked together and that they had just come back from a meeting.

Mr Thomas denied this at the inquiry, saying he was meeting with Mr Samra socially.

“It was just a social catch-up from my recollection, we met, we catch up sometimes,” he said.

Mr Thomas told the inquiry he met Mr Samra at a charity event and was introduced to him by Mr Samra’s father Andre.

Mr Thomas claimed he was unaware of the Comancheros allegations.

The bikies allegedly flew from Melbourne to Brisbane specifically to go to the Centenary Bridge site to threaten crane operator and CFMEU member Cody Raymond.

Mr Raymond was allegedly told that his house would be burned down and his children killed in an altercation on a footpath next to his work area.

Months later in November 2024, investigators from the Queensland Police organised crime unit requested the CCTV footage of the incident but BMD declined, claiming that footage prior to August 2024 was not available.

Mr Thomas was tasked with looking for and providing the footage but said he could not locate it.

The commission of inquiry has since obtained the footage from Georgiou Group — BMD’s joint venture partner on the Centenary Bridge site.

In separate evidence from Georgiou Group managers Gareth Davie and Quinn Murray, Mr Thomas was accused of trying to limit access to CCTV after the incident.

Mr Davie told inquiry lawyers in March that Mr Thomas had told him during a phone call, “we need to delete as many records as we can” referring to the CCTV footage.

Georgiou downloaded and saved the CCTV footage of the June 5 events, while BMD deleted its copies from the online portal.

Mr Thomas was asked if he spoke with Mr Pickard about how they could delete the CCTV footage.

“I don’t recall,” Mr Thomas said.

“I don’t believe that’s what we’ve done.”

Mr Raymond feared for his family’s safety after the event, including his two young boys.

He took sick leave and was then terminated from his position on the Centenary Bridge site for “abandoning” his role.

CFMEU administrator Michael Crosby, in his statement condemning BMD, called for action against the contractor. BMD was awarded the early works contract to prepare the Victoria Park site ahead of the 2032 Games stadium being built.

“The inquiry has heard substantial evidence about the use of bikies to threaten a CFMEU delegate at a work site of BMD, a major national construction company,” Mr Crosby said.

“BMD is the only company to have been awarded a contract for the Olympics.

“It has not removed the senior executives who the evidence suggests had knowledge of the use of Comancheros to threaten the CFMEU delegate.

“It is morally repugnant and must be condemned by all.”

Mr Crosby said evidence heard before the CFMEU commission of inquiry this week was extremely distressing.

The Comancheros member allegedly told Mr Raymond that he would “burn his f***ing house down c***” and kill his children.

“The Administration is aware of the ongoing effect that this had on him and his family,” Mr Crosby said.

“The evidence in the inquiry over the last few days should shock the whole industry, and the Administration renews its call that the clean-up of the industry must focus on more than the previous actions of the union.

“In no world should death threats to workers and their families be tolerated.”

Commissioner Stuart Wood KC has warned BMD’s lawyers that two of their employees could be charged with a criminal offence.

“There was a lot of evidence to suggest that if Mr Samuel was guilty of the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime, there might be some suggestion that Mr Pickard and Mr Thomas, again, a lot of the evidence was circumstantial, but it was extensive, would be guilty of that crime,” Mr Wood said.

“And also, depending again, how the evidence comes out, and it’s only at the very beginning, there’s a possibility for your assessment that there might be a suggestion of perjury.”