Corrupt Qld MP sitting on $3.7m super

Former Queensland Labor MP Gordon Nuttall, who was jailed for corruption and perjury, is fighting to stop the state government taking up to $2.7m from his pension package.

Nuttall was jailed for seven years in 2009 for receiving more than $500,000 in corrupt payments from two businessmen who he then helped to secure lucrative government contracts.

The 63-year-old was released on parole in 2015 and is sitting on $3.74m of superannuation from his time in office, according to documents filed in the Brisbane Supreme Court last week.

The documents also reveal Nuttall contributed just short of $184,000 to his superannuation, which was worth about $1.5m when he resigned in 2006 and grew from interest.

Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt confirmed in July the state government was going after the disgraced ex-minister's superannuation fund because it's what taxpayers would want.

Nuttall was released under strict conditions, including that he live with his daughter, undergo drug and alcohol testing and not speak to the media.