Exiled Sydney bikie Mark Buddle’s wife to return to Australia

The wife of exiled Sydney bikie Mark Buddle is believed to be organising the paperwork for herself and children to return to Sydney.

The wife of exiled Sydney bikie Mark Buddle is believed to be coming home after her husband fled Dubai for Iraq.

Buddle left the United Emirates before the worldwide raids last week from Operation Ironside which saw his bikie gang the Comanchero decimated with arrests in Australia.

It comes as The Daily Telegraph launched Powderkeg, a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s cocaine fixation.

Mel Ter Wisscha with her husband Mark Buddle.

Mel Ter Wisscha, from Sydney, is attempting to organise the paperwork for herself and her two children, which she has with Buddle, to return home. She is not accused of any wrongdoing.

The information comes as The Daily Telegraph launched Powderkeg, a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s cocaine fixation.

The pair have been living in the luxury Palms enclave for nearly a decade after Buddle left Australia in 2013 when police wanted to question him over the murder of armoured van security guard Gary Allibon in 2010.

Underworld sources said Buddle has been worried for some time that Australian authorities, particularly the NSW Police, were closing in on him and believed he was no longer safe from arrest in Dubai.

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“Even before the arrests last week he was on the move,’’ said an underworld source.

“He wants his family safe and it would be too hard to be on the run in that part of the world with her and his kids,’’ he said.

NSW police sources confirmed they believe Buddle was in Iraq but may have already moved elsewhere.

Mel Ter Wisscha has family in Sydney where her father is a former policeman.

She has stuck by Buddle’s side despite him being charged with assaulting her in 2012 when police alleged he threatened to slit her throat in a flat where she lived with her sister in Bronte. The charges were later dropped.

Comanchero bikie Mark Buddle with Mel Ter Wisscha.

It is also believed Buddle’s associate, Hakan Ayik, wanted in Australia for massive drug importations is trying to get his family out of Turkey after the United States indicted him on a RICCO charge (racketeering).

Ayik, known as Big Hux, was a target of a stunning FBI and federal police sting where he and his underworld mates were tricked into using an encrypted phone network called ANoM without knowing the police were capturing his every transmission.

The former Sydney Commanchero associate is said to be well protected in Turkey where he owns the Kings Cross Hotel in Istanbul. Other known bikie associates such as former Lone Wolf boss Erkan Keskin and Haken Arif, known as Little Hux are known to frequent.

NSW police say Keskin, known as ”Eric the Wolf’’ and a former Turkish soldier is a person of interest in a number of major crimes in Australia. Little Hux is wanted here after he jumped bail in Dubai where he was awaiting extradition over his part in conspiring to import cocaine with Michael Ibrahim.

Over the past 10 years Ayik is said to have built up massive connections inside the Turkish army and local governments.

He is rumoured to pay millions of dollars for his own private militia to protect his waterfront home.

“Ayik has thought he was untouchable for a long time,’’ said a NSW Police officer.

“But we have never given up on trying to get him and it now seems the walls are closing in.

“Getting him arrested in Turkey, where he is a citizen has its problems but is not impossible.

“And now that the Americans want him it’s a whole new ball game.”