Jarryd Hayne: Video allegedly shows league great handing $5000 to accused Hells Angels bikie enforcer Chris Bloomfield
JARRYD Hayne’s manager has responded to the revelation the Titans star was caught on video appearing to give an accused Hells Angels bikie a $5000 wad of cash saying “he just happened to be there”.
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RUGBY League great Jarryd Hayne has been caught on video appearing to give an accused Hells Angels bikie enforcer a $5000 wad of cash.
The Daily Telegraph has obtained exclusive footage of the Titans star joy-riding around the Gold Coast with bikie and former Titans under-20 player Chris Bloomfield just one night after his side’s loss to Brisbane.
Hayne is now under investigation by the NRL Integrity Unit which has said it will look into his association with known and accused criminals.
“Haynsey just gave me five grand,” the alleged bikie standover man says grinning to the camera while holding up a giant wad of cash.
Hayne responds by shrugging his shoulders and saying: “Cash money fam, cash money. Give me a f ... ing cigarette.”
Hayne’s manager and long time friend Wayne Beavis said today the star didn’t realise Bloomfield was a Hells Angels bikie and simply bumped into the alleged standover man at a party.
“I’ve spoken to Jarryd and he said ‘it was just beers with the boys’,” he told the Daily Telegraph today. “The money’s not his, he would ever be walking around with five grand in his pocket.
“He says he doesn’t even know the bloke. They aren’t even mates. He just happened to be there.”
Former Titans player Nene Macdonald is also under investigation after The Daily Telegraph obtained a photo of him with the same alleged bikie enforcer on Instagram.
NRL sources confirmed Hayne has been previously warned by the Integrity Unit about associating with known and accused criminals.
“The Integrity Unit is aware of the video and we will investigate the matter which involves both players,” an NRL spokesman said.
Bloomfield is facing extortion charges at Southport Magistrate Court and is said to be a Hells Angels bikie according to detectives from Queensland’s Taskforce Maxima.
The footage was sent from Bloomfield’s Snapchat account to close friends.
The stunning images come after the NRL has repeatedly warned players this year not to consort with bikies and known and accused criminals.
The Hayne video shows the Titans player holding a drink at a house party on the Gold Coast before hopping into a car blasting the hit song Lose Yourself by Eminem.
“Tear this mother f ... ing roof off like two dogs caged,” Hayne shouts from the back of the car, which is being driven by Bloomfield.
The clips were filmed and sent to Snapchat between 10.30pm on Saturday and 4am the following morning.
Hayne has signed a two-season deal with the Titans worth $1.2 million a year.
Bloomfield, 26, recently posted a photo to his Instagram account wearing a Hells Angels vest with patches denoting Gold Coast “Wrecking Crew”, the enforcement arm of the bikie gang.
He has a “one per cent” tattoo on his neck above the acronym HAMC (Hells Angels Motorcycle Club).
The Hells Angels club has been declared a criminal organisation in Queensland.
Macdonald played his last game with the Titans on Friday after signing a three-year deal with St George Dragons.
He was pictured on Bloomfield’s Instagram account in a convertible holding a can of Canadian Club a few days ago.
The words “Nothing but good times” were stamped on the image.
JARRYD’S MATE HAS A COURT DATE
CHRIS Bloomfield is a former Titans under-20s star who was once tipped for big things on the footy field, but wound up consorting with the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club.
He is currently on trial in Southport District Court on charges of extortion, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, and stealing.
He has pleaded not guilty.
During a committal hearing in Southport Magistrates Court in January, the victim of the alleged extortion said a drug debt was passed to him after his friend couldn’t pay.
It is alleged Bloomfield and the two other alleged Hells Angels took the man’s BMW, assaulted him at his parents’ home and threatened to kill his family.
In April last year, police were in the middle of raiding a Hells Angels clubhouse in Burleigh Heads when Bloomfield coincidentally turned up at the clubhouse and interrupted the search.
Police seized ice, ecstasy and cocaine worth $15,000 from the premises. There is no suggestion they were Bloomfield’s.
PLAYERS BEHAVING BADLY
THE release of the shocking video showing Jarryd Hayne, one of the NRL’s biggest stars, consorting with an accused bikie enforcer follows repeated warnings by the league and police urging players to avoid the company of bikies and other controversial individuals.
FIFITA AND THE KILLER
Earlier this month The Daily Telegraph revealed Raiders prop Andrew Fifita regularly wore an arm strap with the initials FKL (“Free Kieran Loveridge” or “For Kieran Loveridge”) showing his support for the one-punch killer, also associated with a bikie gang.
Loveridge is serving a 10-year sentence for killing Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross in 2012.
Fifita regularly visited him in jail and chose to show his support for him publicly.
CASINO DINNER DATE
In May, three NRL players Corey Norman and Junior Paulo of the Eels and Panther James Segeyaro were warned by officers from the Sydney Serious Crime Squad to stay away from “colourful” figures after they were photographed dining at The Star casino with a large group of men, including a former bikie and an accused criminal.
Norman was also allegedly found carrying several unidentified capsules by casino security on the same evening.
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