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The Victorian bikies hunted by taskforce
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Since its creation in 2011,   Victoria Police’s anti-bikie Echo taskforce has pursued some powerful targets – with many paying the price for their sins.   Here are some of their biggest scalps.
For almost a decade, Murray has called the shots for the Comancheros as either the Victorian or national president.
       Mick Murray
It is a widely held view within the Echo taskforce that the gang was at the top of the bikie tree during much of his reign.
In April, Murray was arrested and charged over the 2019 murder of underworld figure Mitat Rasimi.
Echo detectives were not the only people to have had Comanchero associate Robert Ale in their sights.
       Robert Ale
Ale, now doing an 18-year prison term, was in the Hampton Park Nitro Ink tattoo studio in 2017 when a hit team barged in and shot him nine times, including in the head.
Ale miraculously survived and became one of Echo’s biggest scalps for his role as head of the Last Kings — a Comanchero affiliate involved in attempted murders and drug trafficking.
The man who ran the Bandidos as national president from the Murray River town of Echuca, regarded as strategically important OMCG turf, wasn't one to show off his life on social media.
      Jason Addison
Addison kept a relatively low-profile until the Echo task force charged him in 2014 over fraud and extortion.
Addison was among those who have recently quit or were expelled from the Mongols in a purge by new club leaders.
In a quest to start a bikie war, Basic shot up a rival’s clubhouse and business, and when that didn’t work, police suspected he fired bullets at his own Hells Angels clubhouse in Seaford.
       Dennis Basic
Basic ended up being too wild for the stringent rules of bikie life. In 2014, he was jailed over a series of bomb making and firearm offences.
Basic made headlines again during Melbourne’s lockdown protests in 2021 when he was arrested and charged over punching a police horse.
Words: Mark Buttler, Anthony DowsleyProducer: Andrew Piva
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