OFF THE WIRE
Marissa Calligeros
brisbanetimes.com.au
Members of the Finks pose for a photo. Their faces have been pixellated to obscure their identities in the event that a police bid to have the motorcycle club's more-than 40 members designated a criminal organisation is successful.
Finks drug runners tucked clip-seal bags of cocaine in their underwear in order to smuggle it on flights from the Gold Coast to Tasmania, a police informant has revealed.
In court documents made public this week, a former Finks drug runner-cum-police informant has detailed how other men would transport drugs, tucked under their genitals, on flights from Coolangatta to Launceston and Hobart.
The documents, which have provided a rare insight into the inner-workings of the club, state senior Finks relied on lowly drug runners and limousine drivers to deliver drugs in and around the Gold Coast and interstate.
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A motorcycle emblazoned with the Finks brand. Photo: FacebookOn one occasion, the now-47-year-old collected two ounces of cocaine hidden beneath rocks and tiles in the backyard of the Paradise Point home of Sacha Nachouki, who has been identified as a member of the "Finks Terror Team" in the court file.
The informant said he delivered the drug to two other drug runners, named Neil and Jamie, who were waiting for him at his Surfers Paradise unit in the Palazzo Colonnes.
"I watched Neil put the cocaine down his pants. Then they caught a taxi to the Coolangatta airport, as they were both going back to Tasmania," he told police, according to court documents.
"Sacha told me that Neil was taking the cocaine to [a member] of the Devils Henchmen Motorcycle Club in Tasmania.
"I remember that I gave Neil cocaine on five different occasions.
"Neil's job was to take the cocaine to Tasmania. He always put the cocaine in his underwear, underneath his ball sack.
"I never saw Jamie transporting the cocaine to Tasmania, but he always travelled with Neil from Tasmania up to Coolangatta and then travel back to Tasmania, while Neil carried the cocaine. Jamie knew that Neil was carrying the cocaine."
The informant said the drug runners would fly under different names and sometimes on different flights to avoid detection.
"Neil would sometimes travel to Launceston as they had crappy security there and Jamie would go to Hobart and they would meet up later," he said.
"Neil would also tell me how he would just watch movies on his laptop when he was flying."
The informant also told police at least three limousine drivers deliver drugs in and around the Gold Coast.
He came forward not long after an undercover police officer infiltrated the gang and brought down one of its key players and drug dealers, Tama David Lewis, also known as Darren James Watson.
The informant's statement was included in two boxes of police evidence submitted to the Supreme Court as part of an application to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation under the state's anti-association laws.
The application contains a chronological record of the times members were allegedly intercepted by police in New South Wales and Queensland and even once in the Northern Territory and recorded the fact they either admitted to being a Fink or were wearing Finks-related colours dating back to the early 1990s.
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