This was just 18 months ago: Tasmania Police Drug Squad boss raises the alarm about Alex Vella’s activities in his country – TASMANIA
I’ll say it again: the Malta police/security services would do well to carry out the same investigations on Alex Vella in Malta that the Tasmanian Drug Squad has been carrying out in Tasmania.
Vella travels to and from Malta like there’s no tomorrow and his bank account is infinite, when he has no overt reason for coming here because his parents and siblings have been in Australia since 1967 and so has he. If he’s putting his money into Tasmanian property, he’s probably putting more money into property here, where he is actually a citizen. And you don’t make that kind of money by “selling bikes and cars” on a disorganised basis.
As usual, we have to find out about our criminals from the police in other countries. And it’s so typically laughable that while the Ku Klux Klan-type rednecks in our midst are worrying about the criminals they fear may be coming to Malta on sinking boats, the real criminals are Maltese and flying in and out with impunity.
The Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury reported just 18 months ago:
THE boss of one of Australia’s most notorious bikie gangs has been buying up property across Tasmania.
The Mercury can reveal Sydney-based Rebels Motorcycle Club national president Alessio Emmanuel “Alex” Vella has bought several properties in the state and owns real estate in Hobart, Launceston and Sorell.
Police say the Tasmanian branch of the Rebels has high-level links to the operation and control of the national motorcycle gang.
Apart from Mr Vella’s properties, his son, Alex Jr, is listed as the owner of waterfront land at Triabunna.
That land, which locals say has only ever housed a large shed, was previously owned by the parents of a Tasmanian Rebels president.
The Tasmanian properties owned by Alex Vella house Rebel clubhouses at Letitia St in North Hobart, Merino St in Kings Meadows and in suburban Sorell.
Mr Vella has drug convictions.
“It’s of concern that someone with a criminal history such as Mr Vella has close ties with Tasmania and comes to the state quite frequently,” said Tasmania Police drug squad boss John Arnold, who is Tasmania’s representative on the Australian Federal Police’s anti-Rebels taskforce, Attero.
Detective-Inspector Arnold said it was a serious issue for Tasmania.
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http://prelive.themercury.com.au/article/2012/12/29/369259_real-estate-news.html
From what we are reading here, the MC Rebels are slowly but surely establishing a network around all of Australia, including Tasmania, and the Maltese Falcon – Rebel Alessio – happens to hold the most powerful position in the organisation.
If the MC Rebels are involved in organised crime and drug-running, then his position must pay a lot of cash dividends.
Is Malta part of the paying network?
Alex Vella has his own Wikipedia page. He’s also listed on the organised crime page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia
My question is why did the Australian government find it so hard to deport this guy in the past?
They had plenty of time and plenty of opportunities to do so.
La piovra.
Yes, a real to life Octopus, with tentacles that go to very high places and to very high officials.
I just sent a comment in an hour ago here stating this but it was not accepted, maybe it was thought to be too far fetched.
I can assure you and everyone else that reality is much stranger than fiction and far more cruel.
The freelance writer Danny Casolaro, who died under suspicious circumstances when writing about what he also called “The Octopus”, a very large interlocking network of criminal conspiracy that reaches into every branch and agency of the U.S. government and many other national governments, and also every sector of society.
http://www.constitution.org/col/octocaso.htm