New bikie boss behind Angels’ city expansion

The world’s most notorious outlaw bikie gang is expanding its Melbourne base with a new national boss at the helm of the city chapter.

The world’s most notorious gang the Hells Angels is muscling-up and expanding under a new national boss who has opened a “City Chapter” in Melbourne to match its Mongol rivals.

The Herald Sun has been told veteran Angel Luke Moloney has been elevated to national president — a rank new to the gang.

Moloney has been a key member within the Hells Angels Darkside crew, based in Melbourne’s north, and a close associate of the Victorian Nomads chapter.

He is also believed to be heading up the new City outfit, which does not operate a clubhouse.

Moloney, who has kept a low profile since joining the Angels, is a former boxer who once campaigned to keep a Glenroy boxing centre for youths open.

Lately, Moloney has been spotted on a national run wearing a vest with both Melbourne and Sydney chapter badges, as well as a “Filthy Few” symbol.

The Filthy Few emblem denotes a member who has committed a violent act on behalf of the club.

Luke Moloney is considered to be the most senior Hells Angels bikie in Australia.

The Herald Sun has been told the Hells Angels have in recent times moved to recruit more young members, particularly from Islander and Turkish backgrounds.

Meanwhile, bikies connected to the Nomads, whose infamous stronghold is in Lipton Drive, Thomastown, are under scrutiny over the disappearance and presumed murder of Adelaide Hells Angels associate Kerry Giakoumis.

A major probe on both sides of the Victoria-South Australia border into what happened to the young concreter has been running since last year.

Kerry Giakoumis, from Adelaide, who disappeared after visiting Melbourne in 2020. Picture: Supplied

Giakoumis, 29, who had links to Adelaide’s North Crew chapter travelled to Melbourne in a car with a group of Hells Angels in June last year.

There have been suggestions he was reluctant to make the trip, which ended with a visit to the Lipton Drive clubhouse.

Detectives are operating in the belief there was violence inside the building in the early hours of June 10 and that his body was removed and disposed of.

Investigators believe internal gang friction may have been a factor.

A long-time friend of Mr Giakoumis told the Herald Sun last month that he did not want to go to Melbourne.

“There was so much persistence for him to go away with them and, to me, that was alarming,” the friend said.

“There was a lot of pressure on his shoulders. I could see he didn’t want to go.”

Mr Giakoumis was far from the first person to come to grief inside the walls of Lipton Drive, arguably Victoria’s most notorious OMCG clubhouse.

It has been the venue for some horrific assaults in the past, including the brutal 2007 bashing of banished member Terrence Tognolini.

It was searched a month after the 1996 contract killing at Bendigo of young mum Vicki Jacobs, shot dead as she slept with her young son.

Officers bulldozed their way inside and seized a sawn-off shotgun, a bulletproof vest, documents and three motorcycles.