Son of one of Australia’s best-known bikie bosses lives lavish life
LUXURY hotels, designer clothing and boat parties in the Sydney Harbour are just part of life for the son of a Rebels bikie who was tipped to become the outlaw motorcycle club’s national president before his untimely death.
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REBELS Sergeant-at-Arms Simon Rasic was an enforcing character who was tipped to become the outlaw motorcycle club’s national president before his untimely death in 2014.
The 43-year-old son of former Socceroos coach Rale Rasic died of natural causes after holding the high-ranking position with the gang for more than a decade.
As one of Australia’s best-known bikie bosses, his funeral attracted more than 1500 mourners, which included dozens of patched Rebels from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Malta.
Members from other clubs, including patched Bandidos, also attended the send-off.
Rasic’s young son Alex played a key role in the funeral, arriving at the church on the back of a Rebels’ bike and captured in powerful images carrying his father’s spray-painted coffin and being consoled by patched members of the club during the ceremony.
Now four years on, his son is much older and still has links to the Rebels, having developed a close friendship with high-ranking member Chris Rymer.
The pair are frequently together, sharing pictures of their glamorous lifestyles on their respective Instagram accounts.
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Four days ago Rymer shared pictures of a trip to Perth he shared with Rasic.
The brief holiday included the high-ranking Rebels member sitting in the cockpit of a plane, which was posted online along with the hashtag #boughtaplane.
Once in Perth, both men can be seen drinking and spending time relaxing in a luxury hotel room and next to a spa.
Rasic referenced troubled AFL star Ben Cousins in the post, commenting that they had shown the city “how it’s done” after seeing “the sunset and sunrise a times”.
The extravagant lifestyle has also seen the friends staying in a luscious hotel room inside the casino, partying on a boat in the Sydney Harbour and shopping for high-end Louis Vuitton clothing.
The friendship of the two extends past their own adventures, with it clear that both men had a lot of respect for Alex’s father.
Rasic and Rymer have both shared multiple photos on their Instagram accounts paying tribute to the former bikie boss, with the most heartfelt coming from Alex just two years after his father’s death.
“His presence is always there. He’s just in another dimension. I still see him riding his dirt bike in the green land of Cecil Park!!!! Driving his rodeo with a huge smile on his face!!!! The day he put dreadlocks in his hair wearing an earthy brown poncho!!!! How can I ever forget his precious gifts an old sword along with an old black motor bike jacket. The scent of his JAZZ fragrance he always wore!!! And most of all he loved with his heart on his sleeve!!! Never will he be forgotten. He is free as bird,” he wrote at the time.
Earlier this year, Rymer also shared a picture Simon Rasic alongside his bikie brother Michael “Ruthless” Davey who was the victim of a 2016 underworld execution.
“If you 2 we’re still here!! #foreverchapter #royalty OG,” he wrote.
“F**k alotta shit would be different now braaaa 2kingz.” replied Alex.
Another commenter said the picture showed two gentleman taken too soon, which Rymer replied to saying: “gentlemen with a bit of psychopath bipolar scitsofrenia (sic)”.
Rasic then replied to Rymer’s comment joking that was “just a few symptoms they both had”.
HOW SIMON RASIC’S DEATH AFFECTED THE REBELS
The long serving Sergeant-at-Arms’ death came as national president, Alex Vella, had his visa cancelled by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on the grounds he was of bad character.
When the organisation’s top brass was wiped out, it triggered leadership and internal power struggles in the club, which weakened their empire.
The instability rippled through the club’s many chapters, with the struggles seeing members looking to “patch-out’’ or join rival clubs — something that would have dire consequences.
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“They are really in disarray with their boss Alex Vella stuck in Malta and their long-term sergeant of arms Simon Rasic dying last year,’’ a senior police source told The Daily Telegraph at the time.
One of the victims of the power struggle was Darren Wallace, a sergeant-at-arms of the Rebels and owner of a tattoo parlour, who was executed in broad daylight on the forecourt of the Shell Coles Express servo in the quiet country town of Picton, southwest of Sydney.
His killer was Tevita Daunibau — a former Australian Army soldier who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The police probe centres on reports Wallace may have been trying to leave the Rebels and to do so meant surrendering his motorcycle.
But it is also understood Daunibau left a local chapter of the Rebels known as “patching out” which may have also been the cause of the conflict.
Daunibau, who served 12 years with the Australian Defence Force before he was discharged with post-traumatic stress disorder, walked up to Wallace at a bowser at the Shell service station on Argyle St and shot him once after a brief argument outside a nearby pub.
Wallace is reported to have pleaded with his attacker, saying “Don’t do it”.
As Wallace lay in pool of blood, Daunibau walked to a nearby creek and turned the gun on himself.
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Around the same time Rymer and seven other members of the club were charged following an alleged 2014 attack on the leader of a western Sydney Rebels chapter.
The victim was allegedly hog tied with cable leads, burnt with a blowtorch, had his nipples sliced open and his right arm shattered.
But late last year, the group was found not guilty of the kidnapping and 36-hour torture ordeal of the former gang president after the jury decided there was no case against any of them.
After they were released, the bikies celebrated their acquittal and release from prison for the torture attack.
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