gatto witness in primelife case Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto is back in court today, this time as a witness in a wrongful dismissal case.
Last year Mr Gatto was in the dock defending a murder charge, this time he took a different seat in the Supreme Court witness box.
Mr Gatto was giving evidence in support of Ted Sent, the former chief executive of Melbourne property developer PrimeLife who claims he was wrongfully sacked in 2003.
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Mr Sent is seeking up to $5 million in damages.
The PrimeLife board claims Mr Sent breached his employee agreement including alleged illegitimate payments of more than $220,000 to Mr Gatto to help with union negotiations on PrimeLife sites.
Mr Gatto told the court Mr Sent hired him a decade ago when he was receiving death threats during a PrimeLife court case.
He said he had organised a friend's security business to monitor shareholders at PrimeLife's annual general meeting in 2001.
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