Supergrass links Melbourne Comanchero bikies to six murders and huge triad drug importations

Extraordinary testimony from a key underworld figure has revealed some of the Comancheros’ darkest secrets.

Senior Melbourne Comanchero member Bemir Saracevic at the bikie gang’s national run in Hallam, southeast Melbourne two years ago.

A gangland supergrass has linked Melbourne Comanchero bikies to six murders and huge triad drug importations in extraordinary ­testimony.

Statements by the informer and other witnesses, which were revealed during the Mitat Rasimi murder trial, also implicated the outlaw motorcycle club in a massive meth rip-off worth millions, non-fatal payback shootings and robberies of drug dealers.

One key underworld figure – who can be known only as Witness A – opened up to police about some of the Comancheros’ darkest secrets.

The identities of some of the murder victims was not made clear in the Supreme Court when the issue of ­admissibility of witness statements came up in discussions not before the jury.

The statements were revealed during the Mitat Rasimi murder trial.

Two of them were suspected mistaken identity killings.

Muhammed Yucel, 22, was shot dead as he left a mate’s Keysborough property after a night of gaming in May 2017.

Muhammed Yucel. Picture: Supplied

The court heard the intended target was another man who has been publicly linked to the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang.

It was also told that foreign-based Comanchero wild man Hasan Topal was involved in Mr Yucel’s death and would be charged if he returned to Australia.

Zabi Ezedyar, 26, was fatally wounded by a gunman at Narre Warren in August 2017.

Zabi Ezedyar was gunned down in Narre Warren.

He had been visiting the home of Mohammed “Afghan Ali” Keshtiar, the man suspected of being the real target.

The sixth killing was that of Rasimi, who was shot dead in his car at Dandenong in March 2019.

Witness A gave prosecution evidence against gang members charged in connection with the shooting death of Mr Rasimi.

His statements to police also speak of a Comanchero arrangement to protect a large-scale drug importation on behalf of the Hong Kong-based 14K triad group.

That importation ran into the tonnes, Witness A said.

The informer told organised crime police that the Comanchero had carried out a “rip” on the 14K triad in which between 20kg and 40kg of meth was stolen.

What they took would have had a potential wholesale value in the vicinity of $3m.

The 14K are a Hong Kong-based organisation ranked as the world’s second-largest triad group.

Its estimated 20,000 members have been linked to large-scale transnational drug trafficking, gun-running and murders.

The Rasimi trial lifted the lid on other alleged high-level Comanchero-linked crimes, with some of the Melbourne underworld’s biggest names mentioned.

One witness alleged that veteran Melbourne crime ­figure Shane Cogley was commissioned to murder Keshtiar in 2018 or 2019.

That was well after the initial attempt which claimed the life of Mr Ezedyar. ­Defence barrister Peter Botros told the court that there was an allegation of an ­attempt to murder Keshtiar.

“Notably, Emir Jaha features in that narrative,” Mr Botros told the judge.

“So do Bemir Saracevic, Daniel O’Shea and Samson Bazi.”

Saracevic is a senior ­Comanchero, Emir Jaha is a clubmate, Bazi is the gang’s former sergeant-at-arms and O’Shea a veteran crime figure.

Keshtiar survived until September last year when he died in an unsolved ambush in a street near his South Yarra apartment.

There were also claims that Comancheros were asked to carry out two shootings linked to security industry friction.

One related to a firm’s encroachment on another business and the second to the bashing of a security guard.

A claim that O’Shea was sent to rob a drug dealer is also aired in the statements.

O’Shea was shot dead in Fawkner Park in April, 2019, a month after Mr Rasimi died. Witness A was a trusted figure in Melbourne gangland circles over many years.

He is regarded as a well-connected, highly dangerous and intelligent criminal.

During the Rasimi trial, he testified about shootings, stabbings and bashings being carried out for the Comanchero gang.

A Supreme Court jury last month convicted two patched Comancheros, Richard Ene, 29, and Laiseni Kakato, 31, over the Rasimi murder.

A third Comanchero, who the Herald Sun has chosen not to name, was also found guilty of ­murder.

Mr Rasimi – once part of Tony Mokbel’s drug empire known as The Company – was shot dead in his car on Dawn Ave, Dandenong, in a hit linked to ­attempts to collect a $200,000 debt.

The Herald Sun does not suggest that Kakato or Ene were involved in any of the other crimes mentioned.