Two men allegedly ordered by their union boss to destroy reams of documents are expected to recall in court how they first tried to burn tonnes of papers that were later dumped at a Queensland tip.
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David Arthur Hanna is on trial for destroying, concealing or mutilating documents in April 2014 that could have been required as evidence at a royal commission into alleged trade union corruption.
Prosecutors allege the former president of the Queensland CFMEU deliberately buried nearly seven tonnes of documents to avoid the scrutiny of the Trade Union Royal Commission.
A Brisbane District Court jury was on Monday told Hanna instructed two colleagues to take the files from the union's Bowen Hills office and burn them in a fire pit at his acreage property south of Brisbane.
Those two men are expected to give evidence on Tuesday.
When that plan failed he called in an excavator and truck from a friend to collect and dump the papers at a tip near Ipswich.
It is unclear what was in the files.
The trial continues.
Australian Associated Press