Matthew Doyle friend Jared Hart delivering yacht before arrest
One of the three property high-flyers arrested last week over an alleged international drug syndicate is behind bars instead of preparing to join the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
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One of the three property high-flyers arrested last week over an alleged international drug syndicate is behind bars instead of preparing to join the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Adrenalin junkie Jared “Jazza” Hart, 30, had just arrived back from delivering one of the race yachts to London, according to his Facebook page, when he was arrested last week.
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“Can’t wait till March 2020 to hop back on board race from Zhuhai to Qingdao in China then from Qingdao to Seattle across the Mighty Pacific,” the experienced sailor posted before police charged him, along with mates Matthew Doyle and Raoul Kesby.
The former schoolboy from elite Newington College is accused of knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime in relation to $219,500 at Hammondville on July 26 and supplying 50kg of cocaine on September 4.
Hart helped deliver the yacht Qingdao for the start of the race on September 1 just a few months after his electrical firm went bust owing $49,590 to the Australian Taxation Office and $20,083 in wages, according to company documents.
His company, Empire Electrical Solutions, was wound up in May, two months after the collapse of the development company Cronulla 88, run by co-accused, the socialite Matthew Doyle, which owed over $1.67 million.
Hart’s four-year-old electrical company operated in the construction industry, mainly providing electricians, but it is not known if it worked on the luxury Cronulla apartment block developed by Doyle, 30, and three other directors, including a relative of Raoul Kesby.
A liquidator is currently investigating Doyle and his co-directors Sebastian Kesby, Matthew Zappia and Jon Robert Elliott over “continued trading losses” and whether the sale of three of the 12 apartments were “commercial” transactions.
Doyle, Hart and Raoul Kesby mixed with the Sydney social scene with photographs on Hart’s Facebook page a testament to his love of adventure from the ocean to the ski fields and rock climbing.
Along with the others, he did not apply for bail in court last week and it was formally refused.