Melbourne Uni construction crew boss linked to outlaw bikie gang

Tyrone Bell. Photo: Facebook

A construction crew run by a prominent member of an outlaw motorcycle gang has worked on Melbourne University's new architecture building, a nursing home and a Toorak mansion, further fuelling concerns that bikies are infiltrating Victoria's building industry.

Tyrone Bell, sole director of SGI Building Services, is a patched member of the Port Melbourne-based Mongols, one of the nation's fastest growing bikie gangs.

Members of the club include accused attempted murderer Mark Graham, who is on bail awaiting trial over a double shooting in a crowded Queensland shopping mall that wounded a rival bikie and an innocent bystander.

The new Faculty of Architecture building at Melbourne University.

Other Mongols have recently been charged over a run-in with security guards at a St Kilda venue where a gun was produced, an alleged assault on a police officer, and the stabbing death of a rival Bandido associate in Queensland. Victoria Police also raided the gang's Port Melbourne clubhouse earlier this year, seizing two hand guns.

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But a representative of SGI Building Services said the company was not connected to the Mongols apart from the fact that Mr Bell was involved with the club. "We've got a completely legitimate business. There is no relationship with the Mongols."

SGI Building Services has attracted a steady stream of work from high-profile builders and contractors, including caulking work on the University of Melbourne's new landmark $127 million architecture faculty.

The University of Melbourne has claimed it is not responsible for who is employed on the site. "[Brookfield Multiplex] are fully responsible for selection and performance of their subcontractors," a spokesperson said.

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