The chequered history of Shane Ross

A week before his body was found in a popular Gold Coast park, Shane Ross was walking from a Sydney court, narrowly avoiding jail time for his role in a sophisticated fraud operation.

A WEEK before his body was found in a popular Gold Coast park, Shane Ross was walking from a Sydney court, narrowly avoiding jail time for his role in a sophisticated fraud operation.

Pictured outside Campbelltown Local Court, his wife Alex by his side, the Monstr Clothing founder and former member of the Comancheros was heading back to the Coast.

His brush with the law stemmed back years. Ross, 36, and a number of others were accused of being involved in a $4.5 million fraud operation police suspect had been funding organised crime across the country.

Shane Ross (centre), pictured outside Campbelltown Local Court with his wife Alex.

The court was told Ross was a major player in the criminal syndicate that sourced luxury cars from across NSW and Queensland.

Bogus documents were used to secure loans for a fleet of luxury vehicles, including Mercedes Benz AMG, Holden Commodore GTS and Holden HSV Club Sport, before onselling them for profit.

Pay slips, rates notices and drivers’ licences were created for non-existent people, ripping off millions of dollars from financial institutions since 2014, police alleged.

Ross pleaded guilty to three counts of dealing with the property proceeds of crime and dishonestly obtaining property by deception, the property being a 2014 Holden VF Commodore GTS and 2015 Mercedes Benz AMG.

Magistrate Ian Guy described the syndicate as a “sophisticated operation”, of which Ross was a leading player.

“His role was a significant one,” he said. “He was able to obtain the vehicles for himself and his business for less than market value.”

The magistrate said he did not accept Ross had any remorse for his actions.

He was convicted and placed on an Intensive Corrections Order for 18 months.

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Earlier in 2019, Ross was mentioned during the trial of ice kingpin Ivan Tesic, who would be found guilty of possession of meth oil capable of producing ice with a street value of $5.25 million.

Tesic’s defence argued a “supergrass” witness and drug mule was trying to protect Ross and himself, and could not be believed.

There is no suggestion Tesic had anything to do with Ross’s death.

Ross was also mentioned in the 2017 trial of former beauty queen Felicia D’Jamirze, whose face was burned when a police flash grenade exploded in her bedroom. She was on trial for supplying ice in the Queensland Supreme Court, which she walked from after pleading guilty.

D’Jamirze, who was Miss Global Australia in 2014 and Miss International Australia in 2013, was arrested and charged with supplying ice during a raid of Dean Grant O’Donnell’s acreage home in Susan River, near Hervey Bay, on February 9 last year. The court was told O’Donnell was selling ice supplied to him by Comanchero bikie Ross.

There is no suggestion D’Jamirze or O’Donnell had anything to do with the death of Ross.

Away from his criminal dealings Ross was a director of a number of businesses.

As well as being sole director and shareholder of Monstr Clothing’s parent company Monstr Pty Ltd, Ross was director of companies such as Sross Enterprises and Monstr Detailing. Monster Detailing, which has also traded as All About Detailing Gold Coast, was based in Waterways Dr, Coomera.

Property records show Ross owned the Coomera Waters home he listed with ASIC, a five-bedroom, two-bathroom property with a pool and an oversized black marble bathroom he bought from a mortgagee for $695,000 in 2014.

Ross co-owned another property in Coomera Waters with wife Alexandra – a canalfront block of vacant land bought for $745,000 in October 2015.