Bikie associate Ali Bazzi insists he has no links to Comancheros

Once a fully-fledged Comanchero and good mate of national president Mark Buddle, Ali Bazzi says he no longer has any links to the bikie gang – and is determined to show it.

Once a fully-fledged Comanchero and good mate of national president Mark Buddle, Ali Bazzi says he no longer has any links to the bikie gang – and is determined to show it.

Bazzi reached an agreement with NSW police on Wednesday to be bound by a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) which limits who he associates with, how he communicates and even where he can live.

Police sought the order – which has been most famously used in a bid to quell the ongoing Alameddine and Hamzy family feud – earlier this year because of links they allege he had to the Comanchero, including boss Mark Buddle.

Ali Bazzi and Mark Buddle.

The NSW Supreme Court heard that Bazzi’s legal team had agreed to a condensed number of orders, but only after negotiations with police in which he insisted he was not an “active member of the Comanchero OMCG” and “not engaged in illegal activity”.

However in a letter sent to Bazzi’s legal team as part of negotiations, NSW police said they were not totally buying his claims.

“This (Bazzi’s claim) is not a position which the Commissioner (of police) accepts, but welcomes any effort by Mr Bazzi to distance himself from the Comanchero OMCG,” the letter, sent by Organised Crime Squad commander Detective Superintendent Rob Critchlow, read.

One police source said people often believed they had left the bikie life behind: “But what we see is loyalties to bikie gangs are pretty deep-seated”.

Under the orders agreed to by both sides for a period of nine months, Bazzi will need to inform police of where he lives, what kind of car he drives and even what phones/computers he uses.

Ali Bazzi and former NRL player Frank Winterstein at an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney in July.

He will also be prevented from associating with anyone he knows to be linked to a bikie gang.

But Bazzi’s solicitor Sarah Khan told The Daily Telegraph that would not be an issue, as her client has now “turned a page in his life”.

“Both sides were open to negotiations early on in this matter and the plaintiff conceded they were going to have some hurdles to overcome in relation to the case against Mr Bazzi,” Ms Khan said.

“My client was willing to negotiate without admissions.

“He’s turned a page in his life and he’s willing to prove that, and that was the basis of the negotiations on his end.”