Angelo David Lambropoulos offered former employee $10k to bury body, court hears

A former hotdog restaurant owner who denies he is a bikie despite sporting a huge Finks tattoo has been accused of extorting and kidnapping a former employee who allegedly refused to bury a body on his property.

A man with links to the Finks motorcycle gang has been accused of “shaking down” a former employee who allegedly refused a $10,000 offer to bury a body at his property and also host bikie “church” at his house.

Logan Village man Jarrad Paul Henry Alcock told police that his former friend and employer Angelo David Lambropoulos, 26, from Willowvale, kidnapped him, punched him in the head and told him he needed to pay him money or he would be killed.

“You owe me 20k or I’m going to spray bullets through your house and kill you!,” police allege former hot dog restaurant owner Lambropoulos told Alcock on the night of April 27 this year.

Alcock told police he asked Lambropoulos: “What for?”

“Angelo said something like: ‘You screwed me over with the club and opened your mouth about old mate,’” Alcock told police.

Police allege Alcock claimed that Lambropoulos “thought I had told someone about him asking me to bury a body for him”.
“I said: ‘I didn’t say anything”.

Angelo David Lambropoulos is charged with extortion and deprivation of liberty. Picture: NCA NewsWire

The next day police allege Alcock received a Snapchat message from Lambropoulos’ profile stating “you have til Wednesday”, the police objection to bail states.

Alcock went to police two days later.

Lambropoulos, who is a truck driver for Passmore Brothers Transport, told the court he “absolutely” denies Alcock’s claims, describing the claim that he asked him to bury a body as “pure fantasy”.

Alcock’s statement to the Logan major and organised crime squad and details of the allegations against Lambropoulos were revealed in documents filed earlier in the Brisbane Supreme Court.

Lambropoulos has been charged with extortion, deprivation of liberty and assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company.

Alcock told police that in a phone call late last year Lambropoulos offered him money if he would agree to bury a body.

“Angelo told me that he had to get rid of someone and offered me $10,000 to bury the body in my yard,” Alcock stated in his police statement filed in court.

“Angelo knew that I lived with my parents on acreage.

“I remember him saying … that a woman was trying to organise for her partner to be killed and the body disposed of.

“Angelo never told me the name of the woman or the man and I got the feeling from the tone of the conversation that it hadn’t happened yet but was going to.”

Lambropoulos’s Silly Willy's restaurant at Logan Central. Picture: Facebook

Alcock was working for Lambropoulos as manager at his Logan Central hotdog and burger joint Silly Willys when the conversation occurred, he told police.

Alcock also told police he believes Lambropoulos also “wasn’t happy” about Alcock’s refusal to join the Finks bikie club.

Alcock stated in his police statement that he and Lambropoulos previously “messaged” on Snapchat “about me joining the Finks”.

“It was around this time that Angelo told me he was the Sergeant at Arms, I’m not sure what chapter, possibly Gold Coast,” he stated.

Police also allege that Lambropoulos told Alcock to have a Finks bikie meeting, colloquially known as “church”, at his parent’s Logan Central home.

Police allege Lambropoulos is a “confirmed member of the outlaw motorcycle criminal gang known as the Finks” and “holds a significant leadership role within the gang”.

“Before I started working at the shop, I started to suspect that Angelo was involved in a bikie gang. He was covered in tattoos, was driving flashy cars (Mercedes, Mustang, Audi and a couple of BMWs),” Alcock stated in his police statement.

“I saw Angelo wearing a Finks T-shirt one day and realised that’s who he was with,” Alcock says in his witness statement.

Lambropoulos’s Silly Willy's restaurant at Logan Central. Picture: Facebook

Lambropoulos denies he is a bikie.

“Whilst I was mixing with the Finks motorcycle club it was only for companionship and motorcycling. I had no dealings with anything criminal and as a result of this incident I have disassociated myself with that group,” Lambropoulos states in his affidavit.

Lambropoulos is accused of dragging Alcock into a car in Logan Village, locking the doors, punching him around the head several times while wearing something metallic on his hands such as knuckledusters.

Alcock alleges a passenger in the car pointed a double-barrelled shotgun at him during the assault.

“I intend to plead not guilty to the charges … I absolutely deny the offences,” Lambropoulos wrote in his affidavit filed in court.

“I have never discussed burying a body with the complainant or indeed anybody else.

“(Alcock) and I did have a disagreement over moneys he owed me as a result of his employment with me.

“The incident is not as he alleges.”

Lambropoulos was previously granted bail by the Supreme Court on August 12, after 101 days in prison on remand.

Angelo David Lambropoulos in on bail. Picture: NCA NewsWire / John Gass

In an earlier court appearance, Lambropoulos’ barrister Wayne Tolton argued the prosecution case was weak and Alcock was unreliable, and had “serious credibility issues”, because he admits to long-term drug use and his alleged facial injuries were “inconsistent” with being punched with knuckledusters.

“It is the word of (Alcock) against the word of (Lambropoulos),” Mr Tolton submitted.

Mr Tolton wrote in submissions filed in court that Alcock “tends to exaggerate the facts”, and that a statement by Alcock’s girlfriend “hasn't identified” his client “at all”.

“If it were such a terrifying incident, he would have reported it to the police immediately, not four days later,” Mr Tolton states in his submission.

On September 23, Justice Lincoln Crowley granted Lambropoulos’ bail variation request.

As part of his bail conditions Lambropoulos has been banned from contacting members of the Finks bikie gang.

He is due back in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court on November 8.

The charges are yet to be committed for trial.