‘Did you get my good side’: Bachie star’s quick makeover after cop raid

A wannabe bride on the 2023 season of The Bachelor has been arrested in a dawn raid and charged with high-end drug supply and money laundering offences.

A wannabe bride on the 2023 season of The Bachelor has been arrested in a dawn raid and charged with high-end drug supply and money laundering offences as part of a major police ­operation targeting an international organised crime network.

Marjorie Griffiths was asleep in her Central Coast property when heavily-armed Raptor Squad officers burst through her door on Friday morning.

Looking miserable and crumpled in her blue satin pyjamas, she urged officers to let her get dressed and re-emerged with her hair pulled back into a ponytail and a smile for the camera.

She was taken to Gosford Police Station and charged.

NSW Police Organised Crime Squad boss Detective Superintendent Peter Faux exclusively told The Saturday Telegraph police will allege in court that Griffiths was a big player in the network supplying large commercial quantities of drugs, then moving the proceeds of those illicit drugs through an international money laundering syndicate.

Her charges included supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs and offences relating to money laundering.

Raptor squad arrest Marjorie Griffiths at her home in Umina. Picture: Jeremy Piper

The syndicate was being investigated under Operation Phobetor-Enyo - established in 2022 as a joint squad combining the NSW Police Force, the Australian Federal Police, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and NSW Crime Commission.

Superintendent Faux said Griffiths will be accused of cleaning the money to try to move it into legitimate wealth or move it around the world to pay for drugs.

Griffiths was described on Bachelor blogs as the “blonde beauty” who was “set to get pulses racing in the mansion” and someone who “isn’t afraid of flaunting her bikini body on Instagram” when she appeared on the series filmed on the Gold Coast with three Bachelors looking for love.

Marjorie Griffiths, after police allowed her to quickly get dressed, outside her home in Umina. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Griffiths, 27, was charged by organised Crime Squad detectives who established Strike Force Glenfern when they allegedly uncovered a large-scale drug operation being run on the Central Coast, due to drug money allegedly being laundered through a Vietnamese syndicate.

A 37-year-old man in Vietnam was identified as allegedly running a money laundering syndicate in NSW, which converted large amounts of cash to cryptocurrency for crime groups involved in drug supply.

Griffiths is put in a police wagon. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Griffiths is put in a police wagon. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Raptor squad approached Marjorie Griffiths’ home in Umina. Picture: Jeremy Piper

To date, detectives have charged 12 people — one with money laundering offences to the value of $6.8m — and seized about 300kg of prohibited drugs, $2.8m in cash and 15 firearms.

On Friday, detectives working as part of Strike Force Glenfern executed six search warrants across Umina Beach, Double Bay, Lane Cove, Parramatta, and Bankstown.

Marjorie Griffiths in The Bachelor 2023.

Griffith handcuffed on Friday morning. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Another Umina woman, 26, and a Lane Cove woman, 64, were charged with multiple offences.

In Parramatta, a 52-year-old was arrested and, in Double Bay, detectives arrested two men, aged 28 and 31.

Police will allege these men assisted in transporting and laundering money on behalf of the international syndicate.

Mr Faux said: “We are a very unique squad and when we are onto an organised crime syndicate no one is safe, everyone is at risk”.
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