Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick.Credit:Matt Dennien
The CCC alleged Mr Sutherland influenced the council to change the scope of a road upgrade as part of a sports complex development.
The allegation specified that the upgrade ensured the roadwork included the stretch of Paradise Road in Burpengary in front of a piece of land Mr Sutherland owned.
According to real estate records,Mr Sutherland and his wife Gayle spent $700,000 on a two-hectare block on that road in Burpengary,35 kilometres north of Brisbane,in September 2010.
The upgrade was completed before the end of his mayoral term.
The second allegation was that Mr Sutherland lobbied councillors or council employees to change proposed amendments to the project’s planning scheme that would have benefited a planned development application for his block of land on Paradise Road.
Part three of the committal hearing to decide whether Mr Sutherland would stand trial took place in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday,with Treasurer Cameron Dick among the witnesses.
Mr Dick wrote to Moreton Bay Regional Council in October 2018 regarding the proposed changes to the development’s planning scheme.