The director of a million-dollar union slush fund insists it was separate from the CFMEU, despite running the fund's business through the CFMEU's office.
Former CFMEU Victorian secretary Bill Oliver says the Building Industry 2000 Plus fund ran fundraising events with the union, including AFL grand final breakfasts.
Mr Oliver, also a director of the fund, was shown a document he signed on behalf of "CFMEU Building Industry 2000" but he said they were different entities.
Counsel assisting the trade unions royal commission Michael Elliott put it to Mr Oliver the fund and the union were one and the same.
"No, that's Building Industry 2000, the CFMEU is totally separate," Mr Oliver told the royal commission on Tuesday.
The organising of the fund's annual grand final breakfast, golf days and race days were run through CFMEU office staff.
The event invitations came jointly from the CFMEU and Building Industry 2000.
Mr Oliver said a document showing an agreement between the CFMEU and Coca-Cola Amatil to provide vending machines to building sites was not a contract.
He said it was the CFMEU clarifying the arrangements Coca-Cola had with Building Industry 2000.
Mr Oliver said Building Industry 2000 was set up to help pay for CFMEU officials to stand for government and union elections.
"(We were) always conscious that union assets couldn't be used so we thought we've got to set up something separate," Mr Oliver said.
Three years of the fund's financial statements were not filed until the royal commission demanded them.
The 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 accounts were submitted on September 9, one week before the commission was due to examine them.
The fund's accounts showed it had more than $1 million in cash and assets in 2013.
Documents showed the fund raised money from its annual AFL grand final breakfast, golf days and running Coca-Cola vending machines on building sites.
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