‘I’m not a gangster, I just like money’: High-society coke dealer Matthew Doyle caught on tape
High-society cocaine kingpin Matthew Doyle was caught on tape boasting he had been selling 50kg of the drug a week — but he would not call himself a gangster.
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High-society cocaine kingpin Matthew Doyle was caught on tape boasting he had been selling 50kg of the drug a week — but he would not call himself a gangster.
The former property developer with flash cars and ritzy mates said he just liked making money for people and making friends.
Details of the police sting that snared property developer Doyle, 31, and his former private schoolboy mates Jared “Jazza” Hart, 30, and Raoul Kesby, 28, can be revealed now the three party boys have pleaded guilty to their roles in a multimillion-dollar international syndicate which was due to supply an eye-watering 300kg of cocaine between April 23 and September 4 last year.
Doyle said he had used his property dealings — which included a luxury Cronulla penthouse apartment and real estate in Caringbah South, Wollongong and Artarmon — to “slowly” launder the millions he was making, according to a summary of the facts released by the District Court.
Doyle’s wife, Kelsea Nagel Doyle, the former PR supremo for fashion designers including Camilla and Marc, has been allowed to continue living in his $2 million home on Dolans Rd, Burraneer.
There is no suggestion she has any involvement in the drug dealing.
Doyle and his mates are now behind bars facing possible life sentences. Their cases are due for mention today in the NSW District Court.
Detectives had been listening in to Doyle since April last year as he planned to receive 300kg of cocaine worth $80 million.
He said he “was not a gangster but a businessman and loved money and loved making money for people and making friends”.
In July he was recorded providing examples of his drug dealing prowess including that he had been selling 50kg a week.
On September 4, Doyle, Hart and Kesby were arrested at a Marrickville storage unit allegedly trying to access a 50kg cocaine shipment in a sting set up by police.
Doyle has pleaded guilty to attempting to receive 300kg of cocaine and knowingly dealing with proceeds of crime while Hart has pleaded guilty to his involvement in supplying 50kg of the illicit substance.
Kesby has pleaded guilty to supplying a large commercial quantity of illegal drugs.