Inside Australia’s most dangerous gang: Full list of Comanchero gang members’ crimes

The scale of violence that has made the Comanchero Australia’s most dangerous gang can finally be revealed after the criminal histories of members — covering more than 400 convictions — have been made public. SEE THE FULL LIST.

A veil of secrecy surrounding the members of Australia’s most notorious bikie gang can now be lifted, with court documents revealing the scale of violence that has made the Comanchero the most dangerous criminal group in the land.

The criminal histories of hundreds of gang members — which include more than 400 convictions, including two shocking convictions for child sexual assault — has been made public after police this week secured a serious crime prevention order on the Comanchero’s flamboyant Versace-bathrobe wearing president Allan Meehan.

Police said Meehan leads a “sophisticated” criminal network with a rare ability to order violence.

The criminal records of hundreds of the gang’s ranks show more than 400 convictions since 2007, across charges including manslaughter, smuggling, cultivation and supply of drugs, stalking, intimidation, riot, affray, robbery, assault, weapons offences and bombing.

One Comanchero bikie, Anthony James Steele, was convicted in 2017 of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a victim aged under 16, according to documents tendered to the Supreme Court.

Police allege in court documents that, as their boss, Meehan, 35, who shot up the ranks because of his friendship with international bikie president Mark Buddle, would “be aware of the criminal activities being undertaken within the club” and their associates in the Alameddine crime network.

Rare insights into the Comanchero hierarchy state that although not the biggest outlaw motorcycle gang in the country, it presents the “highest threat” to Australia, with its power lying in a highly sophisticated leadership group that survived the murder of former president Mick Hawi four years ago and the charging of Meehan’s predecessor, Melbourne-based Mick Murray, over a separate 2019 murder.

A relative criminal cleanskin with only driving offences and two convictions for possessing a firearm, Meehan has been tracked by police since May 2008 when he was a member of the Rebels.

In 2012, according to the police documents tendered in court, Meehan told a Rebels nominee, Samuel Allen, to leave the gang with no hard feelings because he did not have a motorbike and “was more interested in girls than the club”.

Then describing himself as “Rebels MC International Development Manager”, he moved to Spain to set up Rebels chapters before going to England to “patch over the Iron Horseman MC from Ireland”.

In 2018, Meehan told police that he was with the Comanchero but they were “dead”, he was “inactive” and his colours were “gathering dust”.

In 2021, police found the garage at his rural property in Yerrinbool, in the Southern Highlands, had been turned into a Comanchero clubhouse with bar and gym. By January this year, he had not only become national president but became known as the “bathrobe bikie” because of the attire he wore when police knocked on his door.

Behind the bathrobe, police allege Meehan has “rare” capabilities to use violence to progress the gang’s criminal activity.

“Driving this threat is the conduct and construct of the national leadership cohort,” said Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Cadden in an affidavit tendered to the court and obtained by The Daily Telegraph.

“This group sets a clear, serious and organised crime agenda and are well-connected, highly resilient and criminally sophisticated.

“Intelligence suggests Meehan has the capabilities to arrange for the use of violence to progress the Comanchero’s criminal enterprise at a high level that is quite rare in the criminal world.”

Among the Comanchero involved in serious offences, according to the documents, are Fares Abounader, who was convicted in 2012 of riot. He was shot dead in 2020.

Hawi was convicted of affray and manslaughter after a fight with Hells Angels bikies at Sydney Airport in 2009. He was shot dead in 2018 aged 37.

Hawi’s bodyguard, Daux Ngakuru was convicted in 2008 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and allegedly fled to Turkey in 2011.

Tarek Zahed, 42, was in 2011 convicted of discharging a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He survived an attack in May that claimed the life of his brother Omar, was arrested in August this year and charged with a 2014 gangland murder.

Buddle, 37, was convicted of assault in 2008. He became international Comanchero president and is currently in jail on remand after being extradited from Turkey on drug charges.

Victor Youssef, 37, was convicted in 2019 of possessing a prohibited drug and is on the list of people Meehan is banned from contacting.

A good mate of Buddle’s, Ali Bazzi, 44, was convicted in 2017 of possessing a prohibited drug.

Dozens more were arrested in last year’s Operation Ironside raids cracking down on encrypted communications and organised crime.

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