The Billion-Dollar Hells Angels DRUG LORD

Intro he's Australia's most Wanted Man and the most elusive this person is a murderer he has shot to avoid apprehension and we consider him extremely dangerous he was once a mere bodyguard just a son of Turkish immigrants who moved to Australia in search of greener pastures and when he landed in the land down under he quickly Rose to the top in the confines of the biker World Angelo bandil is a man of resilience he's not willing to go down and if he must he will take others down with him for months now Det Ives have been on his radar observing his movements between Dubai and turkey but always missing him by a whisker while this is going on Angelo pandeli has been secretly running the drug World churning more than $1.5 billion do every year his pockets Run Deep and he has only one goal giving authorities a run for their money the question is will he Early Life succeed when Constantino and Ma pendeli moved to Adelaide from Turkey in the 1970s they only had one goal giving their unborn child the perfect life they never heard so when Angelo pendeli joined the world he found his path already laid out the parents were Avid business people owning chains of pubs in South Australia little did they know that their plans to give him a better life would actually breed a new passion in him becoming an outlaw to the Casual Observer young Angelo pandeli seemed no different than any other child born to workingclass Immigrant parents in the small tight-knit community of Wala his parents ran the local Sundowner hotel in the 1970s a cozy establishment where routin and Chaos was the soundtrack to Angelo's earliest Years yet even in those dim smoke stained rooms of The Sundowner neighbors gathered like family but he had other plans grander passions that would eventually lead him to the darkest crevices of the outlaw underworld and when his parents decided to move to Adelaide that's when all hell broke Becoming an Outlaw loose Angelo quickly showed an interest in hanging out with the big boys he'd mostly frequent local pubs and Bar s and this is where he met John pike pike hired Angelo to provide security against rival Outlaw motorcycle club members at Heaven nightclub in adalade but this wasn't just any security detail it was a nod to the underworld a quiet acknowledgment of his dreams and passion to rule the Underworld for a time he became a bodyguard rubbing shoulders with some of the most notorious Hell's Angels kingpins and that's when he decided to join the Hell's Angels as a junior member pend deli's association with John Pike spiked law enforcements especially considering the background of Pike's Associates one of whom was Anthony soie a shareholder in Pike's company with ties to the Gypsy Joker biky Club meanwhile Pike's other shareholders included Melbourne businessmen with their own checkered pasts it's this association with the big wigs of Hell's Angels that catapulted Angelo pandeli into his success as he began learning the ropes of drug trafficking this business proved lucrative for Angelo because because by 2006 he bought a mansion in permont for $2 million hold on to that house as it will become important when police officers raid him in 2006 he was found to not be a fit and proper person to engage in security services at a local pub the new market hotel after it emerged in court that he was paid to keep other bickies out from there he moved to the bright lights of Sydney if Angelo's allegiance to the Hell's Angels marked his point of no return into the underworld's black hole it was was his migration to Sydney that truly solidified his transformation into certifiable criminal royalty in the mid 2000s here his sadistic ambition and cunningness allowed him to claw his way up the biky hierarchy until he sat stubbornly upon its apex as National president after former boss Felix Lyall was jailed he became one of the most powerful bickies in the city known to be a regular at high-end restaurants at Star City casino by then he had taken over as the gang's National president after moving inter state to set up the Hell's Angels Sydney City chapter and this is where things became even more Tax Fraud heated from 2006 he dived deeper into his business while still handling his presidential duties in the entire time he was able to make millions and millions of dollars but he managed to avoid paying taxes that's until 2014 when Australia's tax authorities joined forces with police under operation Morpheus their mission crack down on criminal biker gangs pel's home in Sydney was one of the first ones to be raided for failing to file Returns the tax office had joined forces with police under operation Morpheus ordering him to provide income info in 2016 but pendeli didn't comply when they caught up with him pendeli admitted guilt for the tax fraud in court however like a true brother the accountant took fall for the fraud saying his tax software glitches caused Pell's missing return so the judge let pendeli off easy no conviction was recorded because the judge believed pandeli reasonably trusted his accountant's work Pandy's case kicked off the tax office's biggest Crackdown on Outlaw biker gangs nearly 200 gang members were investigated for skipping taxes dodging lodgments payments and income reporting the taxmen slapped 11 bikers with a surprise $4 million tax debt notice the previous year Morpheus busted 668 suspected tax cheats linked to gangs recovering 13.3 million in ODed taxes they also secured 193 late returns totaling 5.9 million and over 35 prosecutions and $55,000 in fines and that's when [ __ ] got even crazier pandal worked his way up the Drug Trafficking ranks in the Hell's Angels gang down in South Australia in 2006 he took control of the Sydney Branch his power only grew after the old boss Felix Lyle went to prison but then the cops started taking notice of his activities they believed he was seriously involved in drug drug trafficking but by 2016 he had fled Australia and went to the Middle East so when the authorities got wind of a drug trafficking operation headed by pandaly they went to his Pont house and raided it the plan was to sneak over $250 Million worth of crystal meth into Australia using a small airplane but the American Drug police seized the drugs before the plane could take off from California they grabbed the whole load the Aussie cops also found $2.4 million Cold Hard Cash stuffed in a truck they think the money was for the drug deal too a 72-year-old airplane pilot got arrested as well before he could disappear One Cop said pandeli keeps a low profile but he is a big shot in biker gangs not just in Australia but worldwide even though pandaly spends lots of time overseas the cops still raided his Waterfront house in Sydney they took boxes of papers and files as evidence and he was not the only one under Pursuit at 52 years old the former Pub worker son has undergone a grand metamorphosis into Australia's most Wanted Outlaw now operating discreetly from Turkish and cypriate enclaves pandal is the suspected new Mastermind behind the billion dooll Narco pipeline flooding drugs into the country through an undercover underworld Network stretching to Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle he has amazingly remained undetected despite controlling immense wealth and territorial power even his wife Carrie has thrived her born and Bali fashion brand becoming a hit with affluent influencers from unpr promising Beginnings Angelo pandeli has stunningly risen to rule as the era's biggest Australian crime Kingpin now known as Mr Big for the law enforcement desperately trying to catch him he is both a ghost and their ultimate opencast mine