Authorities have launched fresh legal action against former union boss and Labor Party powerbroker Diana Asmar over allegations she threatened to kill a whistleblower and smear or sack three others she blamed for raising concerns over claims millions of dollars were misappropriated from the Health Workers Union.

As part of the case, the union watchdog is also seeking compensation from Asmar for the union officials or employees she allegedly targeted.

On Friday, the Fair Work Commission notified Asmar it had launched federal court civil proceedings over her suspected plotting to damage four union whistleblowers.

According to the commission, Asmar said of a female union employee: “I am going to kill her, do you understand … She’s going to regret the day she was born.”

Asmar is also accused of concocting false allegations against whistleblowers to harm their careers, and threatening to leak to the media embarrassing personal photos of one of them.

At one union meeting, Asmar is accused of saying “the biggest enemy were traitors within the union, who haven’t seen what is coming yet, but who will get what is coming, and who will regret betraying her”.

The whistleblower reprisal action is in addition to the commission’s existing civil case against Asmar over allegations that a printing business connected to her received $2.7 million in HWU member funds for no service.

The commission claimed the money instead went into private accounts, and that more than $120,000 in...

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