Ex-Comanchero bikie boss Mark Buddle buries mum in a $45,000 gold casket
THE MOTHER of self-exiled Comanchero bikie boss Mark Buddle was buried in a $45,000 gold casket this week at Botany cemetery where senior members of the gang wore their colours to show respect for their former national president.
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THE MOTHER of self-exiled Comanchero bikie boss Mark Buddle was buried in a $45,000 gold casket this week at Botany cemetery where senior members of the gang wore their colours to show respect for their former national president.
His mother died while visiting Buddle in Dubai, and while he lashed out on the exuberant coffin and paid for her body to be returned to Australia, he did not attend.
Buddle is still wanted for questioning in relation to the fatal shooting of Sydney security guard Gary Allibon in 2010.
Buddle left Australia well over a year ago and is now believed to be living between Dubai and Turkey in the company of a number of bikies on the run, which included Hakan ‘little Hux’ Arif who was arrested in Dubai with five others as part of an international drug and tobacco smuggling ring investigation last August.
However, Arif is believed to have since fled the United Emerites on a false passport.
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Strike Force Raptor swooped on members from the Comanchero OMCG attending and leaving the funeral proceedings, handing out defect notices for their vehicles and forcing members to remove their shoes while they were searched for any illegal weapons and drugs.
The bikie gang also posed for a picture outside of the church, dressed in full colours, which was later shared to a number of Comanchero Instagram pages.
“Our respects to our loyal brother Mark Buddle on his loss #respect #love #loyalty,” one of the captions read.
Buddle, 32, had appointed himself as the national Comanchero president after slain bikie Prince Mick Hawi was arrested after the fatal Sydney Airport brawl with Hells Angels in 2009.
However, a power vacuum was created when national president Mark Buddle fled to Europe — a move which caused infighting between members staying loyal to the exiled bikie boss and those wanting a new leader back on Australian soil.
Outbreaks of violence are understood to have been prompted by the return of Buddle’s right-hand man, Ali Bazzi, who had been travelling around Europe with the Comanchero leader.
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When a fight broke out between Bazzi and fellow high-ranking club member, Mezan Chandab, late last year, Buddle sent a text to Sydney Comanchero members telling them his right-hand man was in charge of the club until he returned from exile.
“I’m the f … ing commander of the world,” he wrote, adding that no club decisions were to be made without his say-so.
It was also revealed Buddle had been at war with Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi in the weeks before his brazen assassination outside a Sydney gym.
Sources said the pair had a “massive blow-up” regarding Buddle’s meddling in the club six weeks before Hawi was killed, with police confirming they knew there was tension between the two. There was no suggestion he had been involved in any capacity in the killing.
In 2015, police swooped on Buddle and his girlfriend when their private jet stopped at Newcastle Airport en route to Noumea.
The pair were caught with $60,000 in undeclared cash and charged with dealing with the suspected proceeds of crime and taking $10,000 or more out of Australia without declaring it
The head of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang was given a two-month suspended jail sentence and a three-year good behaviour bond, while his girlfriend was given a two-year good behaviour bond.
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At the time of the arrest, Buddle had just been released from a Victorian prison after serving 15 months for his role in a violent brawl at Melbourne’s Spearmint Rhino strip club in December 2011.
After a number of men insulted Buddle’s mother, he returned shirtless and started the brawl, which saw him stomping on an unconscious man’s chest.
CCTV footage and still photos from the club, a taxi and the Hilton Hotel identified Buddle, who has his surname tattooed across his chest.
He pleaded guilty to array, intentionally causing injury and two counts of common assault.
In 2012, Buddle was arrested in Queensland over a confrontation with police at the start of a family holiday on the Gold Coast.
Southport Magistrates Court was told the bikie boss had smashed a police car window with his head and told a police officer he was going to “rape his family in front of him and kill him”.
The court also heard he had also told police he had “killed people and buried them alive”.
He pleaded guilty to serious obstruction of police and was handed a six month suspended sentence.
Two years earlier, Coogee Ink, a tattoo studio owned by Mark Buddle and then-national president of the Comanchero, Duax ‘’Dax’’ Ngakuru, was gutted by fire after a petrol bombing suspected to be an attack from street gang Notorious.
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