The Melbourne home of former CFMEU organiser John Perkovic has been raided by the Australian Federal Police.
Mr Perkovic, who was stood down from his role as an official at the CFMEU’s Victoria branch in 2025 over corruption claims, was photographed leaving his property after multiple officers and sniffer dogs raided it.
A spokesperson for the AFP said that “the search warrants are part of the AFP’s response to allegations of corruption in the Victorian building industry”.
At least half a dozen officers were seen outside of the property with sniffer dogs early on Wednesday morning.
They were spotted searching items in the garden and underneath a Range Rover parked outside of the house.
Search warrants were executed as part of Operation Rye, which is investigating allegations against the CFMEU.
Mr Perkovic left the property shortly after the raid, but has reportedly not been arrested or had any charges laid against him.
The raid comes just a day after two CFMEU delegates, one of whom is an alleged former bikie vice-president, were charged over alleged secret commissions.
Mr Perkovic was promoted to second in charge in 2024, but dismissed just one year later after allegations of corruption were published against him.
The Age published allegations that Mr Perkovic received inducements of more than $3 million from company bosses while at the union.
The AFP is continuing to investigate alleged corruption and wrongdoing within Victoria’s construction industry under Taskforce Hawk.
In his report to Queensland’s Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU, anti-corruption barrister Geoffrey Watson alleged that Mr Perkovic pocketed at least $1 million from corrupt property transactions connected to the home that was raided on Wednesday.
The home, Mr Watson alleged, was built by a company that Mr Perkovic was providing benefits to.
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