Australian bikie gangs are increasingly operating in Pacific countries, establishing chapters and collaborating with international criminal organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel and Calabrian mafia. This expansion aims to facilitate the flow of cocaine into Australia, exploiting high demand and elevated prices. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime warns of a concerning rise in drug shipments destined for Australia through the Pacific region.
Australian bikie gangs are establishing chapters in Pacific countries and partnering with global criminal groups like the Sinaloa Cartel and the Calabrian mafia in what the international watchdog has warned is an alarming escalation of cocaine imports to the lucrative Australian market. Bikies are also setting up legitimate businesses in countries including Fiji and Tonga to facilitate a greater flow of drugs from the Americas, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has warned.
A new report paints a troubling picture of the march of organised crime on the region. Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and the Cook Islands – none of which have traditionally seen large drug shipments – experienced an increase in consignments bound for Australia, the report from the global watchdog says. Last month, the Colombian Navy seized 225 tonnes of cocaine bound for Australia and discovered a new trans-Pacific trafficking route from South America to Australia. “We have discovered routes such as Australia and Guyana to open up through the Atlantic to Africa and connect to Europe,” Vice Admiral Juan Ricardo Rozo Obregón said at the time. Australia and New Zealand have the world’s highest prices for cocaine outside Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which punish drug dealing with beheading. To saturate the market, high-profile Australian bikie gangs are “increasingly engaging with Pacific regional syndicates”, according to the UN. The Comancheros established a chapter in Tonga, named the Kingdom Chapter, in January last year after gang member Eneasi Taumoefolau, 43, was deported from Australia. “All the deportation has done is enable this group to enliven itself here,” Tongan Police Commissioner Shane McLennan told the ABC in August when Taumoefolau was among 17 people arrested in a major drug stin
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