Exiled Sydney bikie boss Mark Buddle flees Dubai for Iraq

Police say exiled Comanchero boss Mark Buddle would have been on the tapes recorded jointly by the FBI and the AFP and that he has fled to Iraq just in the past several weeks.

Exiled Sydney bikie boss Mark Buddle is running out of places to hide with contracts on his life believed to have forced him to flee Dubai for war-torn Iraq in the past two weeks.

His club the Comanchero is collapsing around him with senior members being locked up all over Sydney and Melbourne after his former mate and fellow drug lord Hakan Ayik was used in an FBI and Australian Federal Police sting to infiltrate gangsters using an internal phone network.

“He would have been on the network and a lot of his dealings would have been captured,” said a senior NSW police officer.

“Even before this he was getting a lot of attention … there are a couple of contracts out on his life which may have been a motive behind him deciding to go to such an obscure place.”

Former Comanchero Bikie boss Mark Buddle with Mel Terwisscha

Buddle has recently left Dubai for Iraq. Picture: AAP Image

Buddle had an office in the Kings Cross Hotel in Istanbul, which is owned by Ayik, but returned to Dubai after he was told to leave Turkey by underworld mates who said his high profile would bring unwanted attention.

Now many of his associates have been arrested in Sydney and others are preparing to leave the country for fear they will also be nabbed, according to underworld sources.

NSW police are ramping up their offensive on many criminal targets armed with information they have received after 12 specialist detectives spent six weeks analysing intercepted communications relating to planned murders, drug importation and kidnappings.

Another police officer said there were drug lords in Iraq and Buddle would have the contacts to hire his own militia-type protection unit.

Law enforcement estimate that he is worth well over $100 million.

Buddle left Australia to live at The Palms in Dubai after he became a person of interest in the shooting murder of armoured van guard Gary Allibon in Sydney in June, 2010.

No warrants have been issued for his arrest and he is still free to travel the world.

He is known to use false passports, hire private jets and is believed to have first left Dubai for Greece, where his former mate, Sydney underworld figure John Macris was executed in 2018.

It’s believed Macris’ fate may have prompted Buddle to travel onwards to Iraq, mostly likely via Jordan.

Adding to his problems is a Balkan underworld figure, who was recently arrested in Sydney, said to have placed a multimillion-dollar contract on Buddle’s head, according to several police sources.

“This guy has a lot of money and few mill to get Buddle is nothing for him,‘’ said an underworld source.

Mark Buddle in a photo believed to have been taken in Greece.

Exiled Sydney bike boss Mark Buddle (right) recently threatened to kill a group of British tourists during a scuffle in Dubai.

“Buddle has pissed a lot of people off with his talk of a “commission’’, where he wanted to charge a tax on every kilo (of drugs) imported into Sydney. He wants to control the whole drug trade into Australia.”

NSW police have confirmed they have been told about the contracts on his life and the fact he is on the move, but will not say if any of the info came from the compromised phone system.

In February this year Buddle contacted all known major drug suppliers in Sydney and said all drugs coming into the city would be liable for a tax paid to him.

Mark Buddle who fled Australia more than a decade ago. Picture: Eugene Hyland

A video of the heavily tattooed former housing commission boy from Maroubra obtained by The Daily Telegraph three weeks ago showed a shirtless Buddle getting into an altercation with some English tourists at an exclusive beachside resort – behaviour which wouldn't have endeared him to the Dubai authorities.

One of the group had slapped his wife, Mel Ter Wisscha on the bum sparking his outrage. Its not known if Wisscha, whose father is a former Sydney policeman has gone with Buddle to Iraq.

The couple have a young child together.