The claims come amid separate calls for far greater government intervention to fight organised crime in the construction industry, fresh revelations of an unrelated firebombing spree in Melbourne \u2013 including a shocking attack on a company owner\u2019s home \u2013 and a pledge from Queensland Premier David Crisafulli that his state\u2019s royal commission will target crooked companies as well as the CFMEU.<\/p>\n
Future Form said the union administration\u2019s claims about its links to standover activity and worker exploitation were \u201centirely false and without foundation\u201d, saying a \u201crefusal to compromise our integrity\u201d had triggered \u201cbaseless attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to clearing our name and will fully co-operate with authorities to do so,\u201d the firm\u2019s managing director, Nabil Hafza, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Future Form managing director Nabil Hafza.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n
Administration chief investigator Geoffrey Watson, SC, is yet to interview any Future Form personnel, a step which needs to occur before his provisional report\u2019s conclusions are finalised and tabled in parliament. The investigation was also unable to speak to other key people central to the allegations.<\/p>\n
CFMEU NSW executive officer Michael Crosby said he was personally convinced that Future Form was \u201cresponsible for the attacks on our organiser\u201d, including a firebombing outside the man\u2019s home and demands with menace allegedly made through a de facto relative.<\/p>\n
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Future Form logo on the Canterbury Bulldogs\u2019 2024 jumper. Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n
The interim report outlined suspicions the reason a veteran union organiser and his family were repeatedly and violently targeted over the past year was probably that he was probing allegedly \u201ccorrupt conduct by Future Form\u201d and the firm was suspected of seeking to \u201cprevent that \u2026 from coming to light\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cA well-liked CFMEU organiser and his family have been attacked,\u201d Watson wrote in his interim report. \u201cThe risk is so great that the CFMEU is currently providing security for two of its organisers and their families. It is obvious that those behind these attacks are dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suspicions outlined in Watson\u2019s interim report have not been tested to the standard required in a court, and this masthead is not suggesting they have been proven, only that they have been alleged by the union administration and several sources.<\/p>\n
The suspected \u201ccorruption\u201d referred to by Watson involves concerns that Future Form engaged in systemic worker exploitation, denying employees lawful rates of pay, superannuation and income protection entitlements.<\/p>\n
One mechanism Future Form is suspected of using is \u201csham contracting\u201d, an unlawful practice that involves treating employees as subcontractors.<\/p>\n
The firm is also accused by the union of major safety breaches at the airport site, exposing workers to possible harm.<\/p>\n
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Future Form project at Western Sydney Airport.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n
Documents seen by this masthead suggest that on one site at which Future Form was engaging dozens of workers, its workers\u2019 insurance records suggested it had just 11 full time rather than the dozens working.<\/p>\n
Watson said the records indicated that these 11 workers were also apparently earning \u201cless than $65,000 per worker annually\u201d or less than half of what they should have been paid under the company\u2019s CFMEU agreement.<\/p>\n
According to information provided to Watson and Crosby, the targeted CFMEU organiser began to suspect unlawful workplace behaviour by Future Form in October. Shortly after this, his suburban Sydney home was attacked late at night while he was away and his young children and wife slept inside.<\/p>\n
CCTV from October, obtained by this masthead and 60 Minutes, shows two masked and hooded men daub the property with profanity-filled graffiti denouncing the organiser as a paedophile and \u201cCFMEU dog\u201d.<\/p>\n
About an hour later, the men returned to cut the home\u2019s power supply, plunging it into darkness.<\/p>\n
Three months later, when the organiser forced a temporary halt to work after he uncovered further suspected serious safety and employment breaches involving Future Form on the Western Sydney Airport site, he was allegedly yelled at by a company delegate, who purportedly said: \u201cYou hate us \u2013 you are biased against us!\u201d<\/p>\n
On the same day, January 30, CEO Nabil Hafza also sent increasingly frustrated texts to the CFMEU organiser, including messages that said \u201cneed this resolved right now\u201d and \u201cneed this shit resolved\u201d.<\/p>\n
CCTV obtained by this masthead and 60 Minutes reveals that after midnight on February 1, the union official was sleeping inside with his family when two masked men covered his car and boat in petrol before torching both.<\/p>\n
Crosby said the attacks sent a message to \u201cback off\u201d and had scared \u201cthe living daylights out of the organiser\u2019s family\u201d. It also led him to stall his Future Form investigation.<\/p>\n
But in late June, the organiser ordered an audit of Future Form by issuing \u201cright of entry\u201d notices on the terminal site.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got a call from workers on the site saying the place was a complete mess, it was really unsafe, And frankly, to his credit, he thought, \u201cOK, I\u2019ve gotta do something about that,\u201d Crosby said.<\/p>\n
Watson\u2019s interim report outlines allegations that a day after the audit notice was issued, the organiser was unexpectedly called by his de facto relative, also a construction worker, who said he had been \u201cjumped\u201d in a car park by several men who he said claimed to represent Future Form.<\/p>\n
According to Watson\u2019s report, the organiser was told: \u201cThere\u2019s a carload of them. They followed me from home. They know where your family is at \u2013 they say they know they are at the dentist. They even know where I work on the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
The interim report details allegations the organiser was ordered by the men who confronted his de facto relative to cease investigating Future Form and apologise to its managing director.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell him to ring Nabil,\u201d the organiser was allegedly told.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is scared so he rings Nabil [Hafza], apologises, says he\u2019s backing down,\u201d Crosby told this masthead, revealing the organiser had recounted the alleged incident in tears.<\/p>\n
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Future Form managing director Nabil Hafza.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n
In his statement to Watson, the organiser said he told Hafza he was sorry for \u201ceverything that\u2019s happened\u201d.<\/p>\n
The organiser claimed that Hafza then thanked him for agreeing to leave Future Form alone, telling him: \u201cThank you. I care about you. You know we are family; you are my brother. I love you. It didn\u2019t have to come to this. We warned you twice before. You should\u2019ve listened to the warnings. You should\u2019ve understood what they meant.\u201d This recollection of the conversation has been denied.<\/p>\n
Phone and email records obtained by this masthead and 60 Minutes confirm that Hafza and the organiser spoke at 10.19 am on June 26 in a call lasting just under a minute.<\/p>\n
This masthead has not been able to verify what was said in the phone call, but Watson also interviewed a second senior union official who says he heard both sides of the conversation and also claimed he heard the organiser apologise to Hafza.<\/p>\n
The second official, whom this masthead is not naming due to safety concerns, said he heard the organiser tell Hafza he was sorry and, \u201cIt won\u2019t happen again.\u201d He said he then heard Hafza say: \u201cI know, I love you, mate.\u201d<\/p>\n
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NSW CFMEU boss Michael Crosby.Credit: Peter Rae<\/p>\n
Documents seen by this masthead also show the organiser\u2019s Future Form inspection notice was withdrawn by the official five minutes after he spoke to Hafza, at 10.24 am.<\/p>\n
After Hafza issued a statement dismissing all claims of unlawful activity, this masthead sought to further question him about the specific \u201cdemands by menace\u201d allegations made by the organiser, but he did not respond.<\/p>\n
Crosby is a cleanskin union leader with no building industry experience and was appointed to lead the CFMEU\u2019s embattled NSW branch eight weeks ago. He said the organiser had now left the union.<\/p>\n
On Friday, after he led a series of lightning workplace raids on Future Form sites, Crosby released a statement saying he was \u201cconfident that Future Form are guilty of engaging a significant number of sham contractors on the Western Sydney Airport site\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Future Form project at the Australian War Memorial.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are continuing to assess the exact level of underpayment of superannuation and redundancy scheme payments. It is likely that we will identify well over a million dollars in underpayments,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n
Future Form works on some of the nation\u2019s biggest and most prestigious taxpayer projects, including the Australian War Memorial redevelopment and the metro line to Australia\u2019s newest international airport, which the NSW government boasts as the largest public-private partnership in the state\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Other top-tier builders have engaged Future Form on major projects, including Multiplex on its 31-storey apartment tower in Margaret Street, Brisbane, and its beachfront reconstruction in Manly, Sydney.<\/p>\n
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Hafza with NSW Governor Margaret Beazley.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n
Mirvac has enlisted the company on a 55-storey office tower in Sydney\u2019s CBD and more recently on an $830 million residential project in West Pennant Hills. Both builders said they were not aware of any material safety or compliance issues with Future Form on their sites.<\/p>\n
In his interim report, Watson said it was suspected that Future Form was previously one of multiple companies that \u201cenjoyed inappropriate favouritism from Darren Greenfield\u201d, the corrupt ex-CFMEU boss who was sacked last year after the Building Bad scandal first broke and who separately recently admitted to taking bribes <\/a>from a Chinese building firm.<\/p>\n Watson\u2019s report cited two examples in which Greenfield directed his fellow union officials to leave Future Form alone, despite concerns about its treatment of workers.<\/p>\n Hafza with Canterbury Bulldogs general manager and league great Phil Gould.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n A source close to the company said Future Form workers were engaged through different companies and that only a small minority would get paid the rate under the CFMEU enterprise agreement. Many were paid under ABNs, the source, who could not be identified for fear of reprisals, claimed.<\/p>\n In his interview with this masthead and 60 Minutes, Crosby revealed Future Form was just one of several companies that the union believed were prospering on government sites despite concerns about their integrity or their links to suspected serious criminality.<\/p>\n Loading<\/p>\n He outlined similar concerns in a letter he sent several major federal and state government infrastructure contractors last week and in which he described in general terms how ethical builders were being excluded from work from the NSW government because contracts were awarded to \u201cbuilders who cut corners\u201d or companies that undercut their market \u201cthrough the use of money-laundering\u201d.<\/p>\n Crosby, speaking generally, also said the union was planning a lobbying campaign aimed at the Minns\u2019 NSW government to prevent major government projects hosting subcontractors with criminal connections.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will use all the lobbying power we might have in ensuring that the NSW government adjusts its procurement practices \u2026 I am concerned at the degree to which criminal gangs have infiltrated the industry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can only have any success to the extent that the industry as a whole mounts a concerted effort to stamp out the use of violence and intimidation as an integral part of the gangs\u2019 business model.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview, Crosby also said it beggared belief that Future Form was a subcontractor building the federal police\u2019s new operations hub at Western Sydney Airport at the same time the agency was ostensibly combatting alleged unlawful activity in the building industry.<\/p>\n Future Form project at Western Sydney Airport.Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n In a statement, the AFP said it has \u201cno involvement in the selection or management of builders (or subcontractors) at the Western Sydney International Airport\u201d.<\/p>\n The federal police has a small team of about three investigators probing unlawful conduct in the building industry, a figure state law enforcement officials told this masthead was laughable but which the AFP said could be expanded as needed.<\/p>\n In contrast, Victoria Police\u2019s Taskforce Hawk has about nine detectives probing alleged corruption and crime in the construction sector.<\/p>\n Queensland and NSW have no police taskforces, despite repeated pleas from the CFMEU administration<\/a> for greater law enforcement help.<\/p>\n The concerns about the NSW industry and Minns\u2019 government projects mirror allegations levelled at Victorian Labor by the CFMEU administrator\u2019s chief investigator \u2013 that its Big Build scheme had become a feeding ground for bikie gangs<\/a>.<\/p>\n This masthead can also separately reveal that police in Melbourne have uncovered CCTV of a terrifying firebombing in early April of cars at a major Victorian construction firm owner\u2019s home as a young family slept inside.<\/p>\n It is one of more than 20 unsolved gangland-style attacks this masthead has identified across Australia targeting building-sector players since late 2023 \u2013 including the suspected torching of the business premises of the ex-wife of former union boss John Setka. Setka is not accused of having any involvement in the fire and his ex-wife could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n The firebombings include many in the months after the Albanese government moved to clean up the industry in the wake of last year\u2019s initial Building Bad revelations<\/a>, which revealed widespread allegations of intimidation and misuse of public money, with authorities so far unable to stop the attacks or identify perpetrators.<\/p>\n In a statement, Victoria Police said investigators from Hawk<\/a> were working with the arson squad to probe potential leads in connection to the Melbourne attack in April involving the torching of two cars in the driveway of the family home of the owner of a major construction company.<\/p>\n Queensland Premier David Crisafulli told this masthead that his state\u2019s upcoming royal commission-style inquiry<\/a> was the only way to expose the rot in the building industry and that it would probe companies suspected of engaging in unlawful behaviour, including Future Form.<\/p>\n \u201cThe commission of inquiry won\u2019t be one-sided,\u201d he said, adding his government would look to abolish the CFMEU. \u201cI don\u2019t see how they can have a place in a modern Queensland. 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