Bikies in NSW, ACT: Who’s who in the bikie underworld revealed
From a Comanchero boss who is Australia’s richest bikie to an ex-Finks president who considers his own face tattoos ‘embarrassing’, these are the men regarded as some of the most notorious gangland figures in the NSW and the ACT.
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Take a look inside the world of some of NSW and the ACT’s most notorious gangland figures.
These are the bikies charged over crimes ranging from kidnappings to pub brawls.
COMANCHEROS BOSS MARK BUDDLE
Worth more than $100 million, Mark Buddle is Australia’s wealthiest bikie and self-proclaimed successor to slain Comancheros boss Mick Hawi.
The exiled bikie is a permanent tourist in Dubai after fleeing Australia in 2016 as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of Chubb security guard Gary Allibon. He denies any involvement in Allibon’s death.
According to a senior law enforcement officer, Buddle is said to have “so much money he doesn’t know what to do with it”.
In 2018, as tensions simmered within the Comancheros due to the power vacuum created by Buddle’s move overseas, he reportedly sent a text, saying: “I’m the f. king commander of the world … no one is to touch another member or set up another chapter without my permission.”
FORMER NOMADS CANBERRA SERGEANT-AT-ARMS ALEXANDER MILLER
Alexander Victor Miller, who patched over from the Comancheros to the Nomads, made a name for himself when he revealed he was working as a male prostitute.
Miller was turfed from the Nomads shortly after it was revealed he planned to launch a coup against Mick Clark, claiming he had the backing of the Blacktown and Melbourne chapters of the gang, and claiming that he would install jailed gang figure Sleiman Tajjour as president when he was released.
When Miller briefly went missing in the days after his release from prison, authorities had grave concerns for his life.
As a senior former enforcer of gang discipline, Miller knows most of the Nomads most closely guarded secrets.
LONE WOLF BIKIE AHMAD ‘ADAM’ DOUDAR
Ahmad ‘Adam’ Doudar was sentenced to jail after admitting to his role in the daylight execution of Comancheros boss Mick Hawi in 2018.
Hawi was fatally shot outside a Fitness First gym in Rockdale.
Doudar, a Lone Wolf bikie, pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to murder in July on the day his trial was due to start.
A statement of agreed facts in the Hawi murder case states Doudar was one of three men who loaded one of the getaway cars onto a white tow truck from a safe house in Bexley.
The 37-year-old was this month sentenced to a maximum four-and-a-half years in jail with a non-parole period of three years and four months.
He will be eligible for parole in December 2021.
COMANCHERO BIKIE FARES ABOUNADER
A career bikie, Farres Abounader was farewelled earlier this month after being murdered outside his home.
The veteran Comanchero member was shot at his Panania home just before midnight on August 29.
Dozens of mourners attended his funeral service at Saint Charbel’s Monastery in Punchbowl, which also drew a heavy police presence.
Friends of the slain bikie, who was close to murdered club boss Mick Hawi, said he lived the bikie lifestyle for its camaraderie.
However, in the months before his execution, he is said to have defected to the Bandidos, possibly for protection.
In 2012, Abounader pleaded guilty to a charge of riot over his role in the deadly Sydney Airport brawl between the Comancheros and Hells Angels.
He was sentenced to a minimum of four years’ jail and lost an appeal in 2013 against the severity of the sentence.
FINKS BIKIE OSCAR JARGIELLO
Finks bikie Oscar Jargiello was jailed after confessing to the brutal kidnapping of a fellow gang member in 2018.
The Glenmore Park man was jailed for a maximum of five years and three months over the attack, during which he and an associate kidnapped fellow gang member Samuel Kelly under the direction of chapter president Adam Timothy Smith.
Mr Kelly suffered serious facial injuries after he was repeatedly kicked in the head and stomped on.
Jargiello pleaded guilty to detaining without consent with intent to commit an indictable offence and assault occasioning actual bodily harm for the Port Macquarie kidnapping.
FORMER FINKS SOUTH COAST PRESIDENT TROY FORNACIARI
A notorious former Finks bikie last year told a court his distinctive face tattoos were “embarrassing” and that he wanted the ink removed.
Troy Fornaciari’s array of work includes the words “Tuff Luck” on his eyelids, “Not Guilty” along his left cheek and “In Gods Hands” on his chin.
In 2017, detectives from Strike Force Rednap raided the Finks clubhouse in North Wollongong, where a loaded pistol with a silencer, ammunition and stolen ute were seized.
After the arrest, the father of two was also charged with affray after he bashed an associate who’d just had a motorcycle accident in 2017.
Fornaciari swore at paramedics who suggested a focus on the rider rather than the state of the bike, saying “f--k up, c---s, it’s my f--king bike, it cost me 60 grand”.
In May 2019, Fornaciari was sentenced to three years six months in prison, with a non-parole period of two years, six months, after pleading guilty to offences including affray, possessing an unauthorised firearm and dealing with proceeds of crime.
HELLS ANGELS SOUTH COAST PRESIDENT GRAEME McGILVRAY
The president of the Hells Angels South Coast chapter escaped jail time in September, after he headbutted another man during a ‘disgraceful’ brawl at a packed pub in January.
Graeme Anthony McGilvray, 33, was sentenced to two-years jail to be served in the community on September 11, after a combination of cocaine and alcohol led him to attack a group of ‘Middle Eastern’ men who were “staring at him” at the Huskisson Pub on January 24.
McGilvray, who has the Hells Angels logo tattooed to the side of his head, was labelled a “violent offender” by prosecutors in court last month.
As part of his two year intensive corrections order, McGilvray was ordered to undertake 200 hours community service, undertake drug and alcohol counselling and abstain from consuming alcohol in a public place.