“Macabre case of bikies burying drug money in graveyard” | Up Late with Ben Harvey

impressive sting operation by W .O.Police.When you think of undercover cops, certain characters come to mind.Johnny Depp infiltrating Al Pacino's crime syndicate in Donnie Brasco.

How many times I have you in my own house?

Johnny Depp infiltrating high school crime syndicates in 21 Jump Street.

You really been to jail?

Yeah.Leo DiCaprio investigating mob boss Jack Nicholson in The Departed.This lying, cheating fraud.Keanu Reeves working his way into Patrick Swayze's bank robbing surf gang in Point Break.And of course then there's the grittiest undercover cop film of them all.It's not a tumor.

We don't know what kind of character was invented by the undercover police officer tasked with breaking a major Comanchero bikie gang orchestrated meth syndicate, but the sheer number of people in handcuffs and the sheer weight of drugs seized during the one -month operation in 2021 suggests he had a pretty convincing persona.

What happened in 2021?

Why are we talking about it now?Because the wheels of justice turn very, very slowly sometimes.The bloke on the front page sporting the latest look from the Comanchero summer collection is Jared Russell Ernest Wrightson.Wrightson, who clearly doesn't worry about legs day when he's at the gym, has just been thrown in prison for his role in the meth fiasco.He's co -accused a guy named Zach, He's also doing time after being sentenced in the Albany District Court a couple of weeks ago.We can't show you Zach's face, and not because he's a dentist.

Morning Rob.It's because we just don't have a picture of him.We do know his family is Dutch though.How?Cause his surname is Davos van Steenwyk.That's a keeper.

We have a very good idea about how Zach and Jared got themselves into the shit because prosecutors laid it all out during the trial.Yeah, this is a doozy.Oh yeah, this case involves drug money being buried in a grave.the Comanchero and Hells Angel outlaw motorcycle gangs, a university student slash vape business owner slash Mr. Universe wannabe named Christian Tachev, and to top it all off, the whole thing was orchestrated by exiled bikey and is -it -cake enthusiast Raymond Chilly.There is a lot to unpack here.The court was told Chilly needed $3 million in cash moved from Perth to Sydney, but was unable to do it himself because he's on the run in Southeast Asia.

Chile used a third party broker to find a courier to do the work and the cops put one of their own in the frame to act as that bagman.How did they even know?Because by this stage the police had been monitoring the Enom encryption app which international drug lords were using after it was sold to them by the police.Cops in Australia and the US were watching an international spider web of communications in real time, came across the Chile transaction and thought they'd deal themselves in.The first tranche of 500k was delivered to the cops by Tachev, who by this stage was in deep with the OMCGs.A few days before he dropped off the half mil, the cops watched him bury 10 kilograms of meth in Edgewater Park that was subsequently dug up by a senior Hells Angel.

And they were also in the bushes with cameras when he buried another 5 kilos of meth in Maniana Park in Perth's southeast.After the 500 grand was successfully delivered, Chile asked Pachcomo Reitzen to move another $1 million, which the bikey agreed to, and enlisted DeVos van Steenwyk to help him.The undercover cop told him that he should leave the cash in the unlocked boot of a car that would be left at Jokine Open Space in Perth's inner north.When Reitzen and old mate got there, the car was locked.Realising that one million in cash was too much to be considered walking around money and not wanting to be pulledin possession of it, the men buried it in Guildford Cemetery in Perth's east.

Police dug up the duffel bag and put surveillance cameras everywhere to see what would happen next.De Vos van Steenwyk came back to make the bowel -loosening discovery that the money was gone.

Yeah, and what did Wrightson have to say about that?

Probably nothing good.

You crazy Dutch bastard.

And then the bracelets came out for everyone.De Vos van Steenwyk got 20 months.He's already out doing whatever Dutch drug peddlers do.Like a schmuck in a pancake.Wrightson, who at sentencing was already inside for attacking someone with a blowtorch.

Well that can't be good.

Got another 7 years, eligible for parole in 2033.Tachev is doing an 11 year stretch, during which time I am sure the good burgers of Casuarina Prison will avail themselves of his porpoise smooth body.And Ray Chilly, at least last we heard, was banged up somewhere in South East Asia still.