Booted bikie Mark Balsillie’s mysterious business, family ties
A notorious bikie recently booted from the Mongols has established business links in the Sunshine State, as it is revealed he is related to the veteran cop who took down a massive underworld identity.
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Notorious bikie Mark Balsillie has established mysterious business links to Queensland – and his father has been revealed as a veteran cop who once nabbed underworld identity Carl Williams in a $20 million drug bust.
Mark Balsillie was booted from the Mongols bikie gang last month along with fellow heavyweights Toby Mitchell and Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim as the club’s Gold Coast based national president Nick ‘The Knife’ Forbes reasserted authority after jail time and parole.
Investigations by The Sunday Mail reveal 37-year-old Balsillie, who is facing cocaine trafficking charges, has invested in three Gold Coast-based companies including one linked to a former business partner of Melbourne underworld identity Mick Gatto.
Records show Balsillie became a director of Southport-based Gluck Nominees in March last year.
Gluck Nominees’ other shareholder is a company linked to Melbourne businessman Victor Doree, who was partners in debt recovery company Gatto Corp in the late 2000s.
Former Gluck Nominees director Rodney Gluck is facing multiple fraud charges in Southport Magistrates Court.
Balsillie is also listed as sole director of Pentagon Group Hotels Pty Ltd, associated with the Melbourne property company the Pentagon Group which collapsed last year.
The hotel arm, which operated hotels in Victoria and Tasmania, lists a Southport accounting firm as its registered office.
Balsillie is also a director of another company registered to the same building.
His residential address is listed as a home in Westmeadows in Melbourne’s north, where records show he once lived with his family including father Andrew, a Victorian police detective.
Detective Sergeant Balsillie famously busted Carl Williams in 1999, after bursting into a Broadmeadows Housing Commission home to find the drug kingpin hiding in a bed with a pill press, 30,000 tablets and nearly 7kg of ‘speed’ worth $20 million.
Williams’ father, George, was found hiding in another room with a loaded pistol.
Williams was bashed to death with an exercise bike stem in Barwon Prison in 2010 while serving a life sentence for four murders.
Det Sgt Balsillie declined to comment about his son when contacted by The Sunday Mail.
The police officer is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Balsillie, Mitchell and Abdulrahim were expelled from the Mongols last month amid a seismic power shift in the gang as Forbes and national sergeant at arms Phil Main flexed their muscle.
Balsillie and Abdulrahim were seen as close allies of the Instafamous Mitchell who had upset bikie bosses with his prolific social media posts and his association with alleged ‘dogs’ or police informants.
In 2017, Balsillie survived an assassination attempt when he was shot multiple times by former friend and underworld triggerman Hasan Topal, who has since fled overseas.
A former Comanchero bikie, Balsillie was sent to Russia to patch over ex Comancheros to the Mongols.
He is due to face a pre trial hearing in the Victorian County Court in July on charges of trafficking and possessing cocaine.
Meanwhile, underworld sources say Mitchell has twice been forced to flee Melbourne locations in recent weeks after a controversial Instagram post which angered powerful crime figures.
Mitchell posted a photo of him and other colourful identities posing at Melbourne’s Southbank after the recent Paul Gallen fight, tagging members of the notorious National Crime Family.
He quickly deleted reference to the group after upsetting gang heavies.
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