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| Sniper death threats issued to Multiplex workers in Australia & Britian |
| 2005-04-06 |
| THE Multiplex extortionist has struck again, threatening to shoot crane drivers in Australia and Britain from April 18 until the company pays $50 million or goes bust. It has also emerged the extortionist, who originally threatened to have crane drivers shot on March 1, had set another deadline of March 19 but Multiplex did not reveal this to workers or to the public. The Daily Telegraph has obtained a copy of a letter sent to the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union and now being held by police. The author of the letter presents themselves as a middle-man between Multiplex and people who are owed money by the construction giant. The letter warns of a series of killings in Australia and Great Britain if Multiplex does not pay up or unless the company is destroyed. It says the group will select the sites to be targeted and, for the first time, makes particular reference to London's Wembley Stadium development. "We're serving notice that there's money owing to clients of ours," it reads. "We're going to commence sniper attacks on selected sites in Australia and Great Britain (and specifically Wembley) and we'll continue until either Multiplex pays or are out of business permanently. "We gave opportunities to Multiplex to fix this on the 1st of March and the 19th of March. Multiplex haven't co-operated so we are now prepared to attack. "This is a formal warning. we've given time to warn all those involved. The location will be of our choosing. "The shooting will continue until such time as they are paid. "Multiplex is playing with the lives of workers. there will be no further warning. This warning remains until there's a retraction in writing." The letter was sent to CFMEU leaders in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. It was typewritten and, in the case of the Sydney letter, carried a Sydney postmark. The extortionist or extortionists sent their first threat to Multiplex in early February, saying a crane driver would be shot on March 1 unless the company paid $50 million. It followed that threat with a similar letter to the CFMEU, urging the union to warn its workers. Multiplex has also received further correspondence from the extortionist leading up to both the March 19 and April 18 deadlines. The company never revealed publicly or informed the CFMEU of the March 19 deadline. The company has communicated with the culprit via at least one message in The Weekend Australian newspaper via a 400-year-old code. The keyword to decipher the code, which was cracked by The Daily Telegraph, was "Destroy Multiplex". The NSW CFMEU will hold meetings across Sydney today to discuss the latest threat. |
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