Hells Angels bikie boss charged over clubhouse booze breach

A Hells Angels boss has been charged with breaching booze laws following a raid on the gang’s Thomastown clubhouse.

A Hells Angels boss has been charged for keeping booze at the Thomastown clubhouse without a licence.

A bikie gang has been slapped with a liquor charge for keeping booze at their clubhouse without a licence.

Hells Angels boss Jasmin Destanovic has been hit with a single charge of keeping liquor for “supply” or “consumption” at the club’s Lipton Drive headquarters in Thomastown.

The 44-year-old was charged with being a “member of a committee of management of a club, Hells Angels, and keeping booze without permission on October 14, 2020.

Destanovic, from Keilor Downs, didn’t appear for a short Melbourne Magistrates’ Court hearing because he “works late night shifts,” according to his lawyer Hassan Hamka.

Mr Hamka told Magistrate Ross Maxted he was waiting on police body-worn camera footage from the day of the arrest to be released to him.

The booze charge, laid by the State Liquor Unit in June, follows a hive of activity at the Thomastown clubhouse, which was raided by police last year.

Officers searched the clubhouse amid a hunt for the remains of Adelaide man Kerry Giakoumis.

The Hells Angels headquarters was the last place the 29-year-old was known to be seen on June 10, 2020.

Destanovic will return to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court over the liquor charge on May 27.