Sydney bikie boss Mark Buddle’s in-laws locked in legal drama

The in-laws of Sydney crime figure Mark Buddle are feuding over a company which helps keep Flemington Markets stocked.

A world away from underworld kingpin Mark Buddle’s multi-millionaire lifestyle of drug-running and private planes, his Sydney in-laws are locked in a legal drama at home over their beloved Flemington Markets business.

Buddle’s wife Melanie Ter Wisscha’s family proudly run the trucking giant Flemington Unloading Services that has kept the busy markets supplied with goods for three decades.

Now Supreme Court documents reveal allegations that have torn apart family allegiances.

Daniel Ter Wisscha, 32, is alleging his older brother David Ter Wisscha, 39, last year withdrew or transferred almost $500,000 from FUS into his own accounts and used the company credit card without approval.

Melanie Ter Wisscha and Mark Buddle. Picture: Instagram

David is strenuously defending the claims, according to the court documents.

CCTV cameras installed in Flemington Markets and the company’s offices are alleged by Daniel to have been installed by David without the knowledge or consent of the other directors or the people being recorded and Daniel alleges his brother prevented other directors from accessing the company’s internet banking facility.

David is also alleged by Daniel to have made “false and misleading claims” to police, causing them to twice visit the company’s office at the markets, and to have “oppressed and intimidated” former FUS employees causing them to take involuntary resignations.

The Supreme Court case has also roped in the family patriarch, former NSW cop Ernst Wisscha, 69, and his wife Donna, 65, who are also directors of FUS along with David and Daniel.

Daniel Ter Wisscha, brother of Melanie Ter Wisscha.

Their other daughter is believed to be in Dubai keeping her sister Melanie and two young daughters company while Mark Buddle is again on the run from both fellow gangsters and the law.

One of Australia’s most wanted men, the Comanchero bikie boss, 42, is said by law enforcement sources to be heading for Lebanon in the wake of the Anom app sting that let the FBI and the Australian Federal Police listen in to his private chats along with those of hundreds of other underworld fugitives.

It is not alleged that anyone in the Ter Wisscha family has any involvement with or knowledge of Buddle’s illegal activities.

Mark Buddle: Picture: Jake Nowakowski

In a statement of claim lodged with the court this year under the name of his company D&RTW Pty Ltd, Daniel is suing his brother David, his brother’s company D & JT Holdings Pty Ltd, Flemington Unloading Services and another company, Ter Wisscha Holdings Pty Ltd, of which David and Daniel are the joint directors.

FUS has lodged a cross-claim against David and his company.

Daniel Ter Wisscha claims his brother withdrew from FUS’s bank accounts $10,000 in September last year and $215,000 and $262,727 in November into his company’s accounts.

It is also alleged that in December 2020 and January this year, he asked 11 clients of FUS to pay bills into his company’s account. The amounts were between $38,28 and $34,982 and totalled $64,128.

“By virtue of David’s conduct, he has breached the director’s duties,” the statement of claim alleges.

These claims are all denied by David, according to the court documents.

He is alleged to have repaid $145,332.

Handling over 80 per cent of the unloading within Sydney’s busiest markets, Flemington Unloading Services states on it’s website that unloads and delivers, on average, more than 2000 pallets per night with 30 forklifts.

“Our clients range from national and international transport companies to small one person trucking businesses,” it states.

Earlier this month, Justice Ashley Black listed the case for directions on August 23. None of those involved attended court.