Ex-Comanchero bikie Fidel Tukel among thousands disarmed by gun license reforms

A mate of some of Australia’s most wanted bikie bosses has become one of a record number of shooters disarmed since tough gun reforms came into force.

A mate of some of the country’s most wanted fugitive bikie bosses has become one of a record number of shooters who have been hit with tough gun laws since reforms came into force.

In restaurants and cafes in Turkey, Istanbul, Dubai and at the running of the bulls in Spain, life Comanchero member Fidel Tukel, 41, has caught up with high-profile bikies Mark Buddle, Ali Bazzi, Hakan Ayik and Daux Ngakuru, the Civil and Administrative Tribunal said.

Tukel, a Sydney boxing promoter, used to take national Comanchero chief Buddle’s late mother shopping and is godfather to the oldest son of Pasilika Naufahu, the National President of the New Zealand Comancheros who was deported from Australia.

Former lieutenant of the Comanchero bikie gang’s East Crew Fidel Tukel.

The tribunal this week rejected his appeal against a Firearms Prohibition Order imposed by NSW Police.

“I am satisfied that there is a real and significant risk that (Tukel) will be involved in serious crime related activities,” tribunal member Stephen Montgomery said in his decision.

“In my view, at this time Mr Tukel is not fit, in the public interest, to have possession of a firearm. It is in the public interest for the FPO to be issued against him.”

Self-proclaimed Comanchero national president Mark Buddle (L) with Ali Bazzi.

Thousands more gun licences have been revoked or suspended in the past 12 months than in the previous two years since the system finally went online and was overhauled following the shocking murders of Jack and Jennifer Edwards by their father John in 2018.

Edwards was granted a gun licence despite a history of domestic violence aganst six ex-wives and partners.

In the 12 months since the state’s firearms registry finally ditched pen and paper and was computerised in February 2021, 5834 gun licences have been refused, revoked or suspended compared to 7527 in the previous 24 months, The Daily Telegraph can reveal after obtaining the information under freedom of information laws.

Much of the police evidence against Tukel, which included a 333-page report, was so sensitive that not even he or his lawyers were allowed to see it.

Daux Ngakuru, who took over as Comanchero boss after the Hells Angels fight at Sydney Airport leaves court in 2010.

He had argued that it was “unfair to me that untested and unverified material could be submitted to the tribunal without even the most minimal oversight as to their reliability, accuracy and completeness” and said he had quit the Comanchero in 2016 and sent his colours to Turkey.

A Firearms Prohibition Order gives police more stop and search powers.

Tukel told the tribunal he was involved in community sports including boxing, basketball, Oztag and women’s rugby teams including the Maroubra Magic Women’s 7’s and remained only on friendly terms with bikies.

Tukel is on friendly terms with accused Sydney drug lord Hakan Ayik.

The tribunal said in 2017, Tukel had dinner in Turkey with crime boss Buddle, who fled Australia in 2016 as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of Chubb security guard Gary Allibon. Fellow diners included alleged drug lord Daux Ngakuru and other senior Comanchero members like Fiel’s brother Baris Tukel.

The tribunal said Fidel Tukel acknowledged Baris Tukel was an international Nomad with the Comancheros and that the role has significance and importance in the bikie gang because “the Nomad is able to resolve conflicts between different chapters of the organisation and to represent the Comancheros to outsiders”.

Fidel Tukel also lunched with Buddle at a Thai restaurant in Dubai in 2017.

Fidel’s appeal to have his Firearms Prohibition Order removed has been rejected.

The tribunal said Fidel Tukel said the last time he met up with Ali Bazzi was at the “running of the bulls” in Guadalajara, Spain in 2015/2016.

Bazzi, now back in Australia, last year agreed with police to be bound by a Serious Crime Prevention Order which limits who he associates with, how he communicates and where he can live.

Bazzi and Tukel were last in touch via text during Ramadan in 2021.

Tukel is also a relative of Hakan Ayik, who he last saw during a “chance meeting” in an Istanbul coffee shop in 2015.

Ayik, 43, who fled Australian police in 2010 while in Hong Kong allegedly in connection to a $230 million heroin importation, unwittingly helped law enforcement organisations around the world infiltrate criminal networks when he promoted the encrypted messaging app ANOM under Operation Ironside.

Tukel, who has posted posting photographs of himself with guns on his Facebook page, told the tribunal that he had never applied for a gun licence and had never owned a firearm.