Mark Buddle’s parents-in-law in legal battle over Flemington Markets business

Underworld fugitive Mark Buddle’s in-laws have been accused of wrongly withdrawing more than $500,000 from the family’s Flemington Market trucking company in a court battle.

Underworld fugitive Mark Buddle’s parents-in-law have been accused of wrongly withdrawing more than $500,000 from the family’s Flemington Market trucking company in a court battle.

The allegations against former cop Ernst Ter Wisscha and his wife, Donna Ter ­Wisscha, have been made by their oldest son, David, 39, in the latest salvo fired in the legal war that has ripped the family apart.

Mel Ter Wisscha and husband, underworld fugitive Mark Buddle.

David Ter Wisscha has also alleged in a document filed with the Supreme Court that his younger brother Daniel, 32, last year set up his own ­company, Supply Fresh, in direct competition to the family’s company Flemington Unloading Services, which has kept the famous markets supplied with goods for three decades.

One of their sisters, Melanie Ter Wisscha, is married to one of Australia’s most wanted men, Comanchero boss Buddle, 42.

Buddle has his own problems, with both fellow crooks and law enforcement pursuing him after he recommended his outlaw mates take up the AN0N app that they thought kept their dealings secret.

In truth it was a sting set up by the FBI and the Australian Federal Police, who were able to listen in to everything being said by the criminal ­networks.

Buddle is believed to be on the move to Lebanon, leaving behind his wife and their two children living in their luxurious home on the Palm Islands in Dubai.

There is no suggestion ­Buddle’s wife or anyone in her family has any knowledge of drug kingpin Buddle’s criminal umpire.

Daniel Ter Wisscha.

Mark Buddle, when he lived in Australia.

The Supreme Court wrangle is being waged between David and Daniel Ter Wisscha and their companies and has roped in their parents.

Ernst, 69, Donna, 65, and Daniel Ter Wisscha are fellow directors of FUS along with David.

David said he has been the managing director of Flemington Unloading Services since 2014 and denies allegations from his brother and parents that he was the one who wrongfully withdrew money from the business.

He claims in a defence filed with the court that he was trying to protect the company’s finances after “becoming aware of a number of significant abnormal transactions that had taken place in the Flemington bank account”.

“These withdrawals were caused by the other directors of Flemington and concerned unrelated business transactions and were therefore not in the best interests of Flemington,” he states in the court document.

He claims Daniel wrongly invoiced the family company for payments to Supply Fresh for “commissions” that were never provided and that the payments were wrongly authorised by their father.

David claims that last August, his mother had his access to the company’s bank accounts blocked and later that month he received a spreadsheet from accounting firm KPMG “confirming that Donna Ter Wisscha and Ernst Ter Wisscha had withdrawn in excess of $500,000 from Flemington’s bank account” and the money properly belonged to the company.

David also claims that later last year, his parents and brother wrongly withdrew a further $42,241 and then Daniel caused Flemington to pay his own company, D&RTW Pty Ltd, an alleged Christmas bonus of $80,000.

His parents and brother have not yet filed a defence to the latest claims but have earlier alleged that it was David who breached the duties of a director. David has denied this.

The case is before Justice Ashley Black in the Supreme Court for a mention on August 9.