New head of the Comancheros is running operations from base in Turkey with estimated $100million fortune – while the glamorous ex of the club’s former boss is seen for first time since being ‘locked up’
- Duax Ngakuru has reportedly taken over from Mark Buddle, who is in prison
- New videos of Buddle’s glamorous ex-girlfriend Mel Ter Wisscha have emerged
- Ngakuru is in Turkey, from where Buddle was deported to Australia last August
A senior bikie based in Turkey has taken the reigns as the new ‘Supreme Commander’ of the Comanchero bikie club.
Duax Ngakuru, 42 – estimated to have a fortune of more than $100million – has taken over from Mark Buddle who was deported from Turkey to Australia in August.
The former boss is accused of importing more than 160kg of cocaine to Melbourne with an estimated street value of $40million.
The change in leadership comes as Buddle’s ex-girlfriend Mel Ter Wisscha appeared on social media for the first time since being released from a Turkish immigration detention centre over a visa issue.
Clips posted to TikTok show her and close friend Leah Simone on holidays in Greece in November with the pair laughing and dancing.
New Comanchero boss Duax Ngakuru (right) is pictured with Carolina Gonzalez, the widow of slain bikie boss Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi, who was shot dead in February 2018
Clips posted to TikTok by Leah Simone (pictured left) showed Mel Ter Wisscha (right) on holidays in Greece in November
Ngakuru is running the Comancheros operations from Turkey along with Hakan ‘Big Hux’ Ayik who fled Sydney while on bail for drug charges in 2010, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The pair went to school together at James Cook Boys Technology High School in the southern Sydney suburb of Kogarah.
Hakan Arif, known as ‘Little Hux’, is also closely associated with Ngakuru.
Arif escaped bail in Dubai before there was a chance to deport him to Sydney to face drugs charges.
Ngakuru is rarely photographed, but a new image shows the New Zealand-born bikie boss living large on a yacht beside a large Turkish flag.
Duax Ngakuru in a rare photograph is seen relaxing on a yacht beside a Turkish flag
Duax Ngakuru (left) with Mick Hawi (centre) and Hakan Ayik (right)
He has previously been pictured in a restaurant with Ayik and another former Comanchero boss Mick Hawi, who was shot dead in Sydney in 2018.
Another image shows a smiling Ngakuru with Hawi’s widow Carolina Gonzalez, with a backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.
Hawi also attended James Cook Boys Technology High School.
Ngakuru was briefly in control of the Comanchero club in 2010 before he and wife Reynee mysteriously left the country and moved to Dubai, before eventually settling in Turkey.
Buddle led the gang during that time but also departed Australia for Dubai around 2013 with his girlfriend Mel Ter Wisscha and their young children.
The mother-of-two was recently held in a Turkish detention centre for 38 days over a visa issue in the wake of Buddle’s arrest at the hands of Turkish agents.
Just days ago she appeared for the first time on social media since her release posting light-hearted dance videos under the caption ‘been locked up’.
Mark Buddle’s former girlfriend Mel Ter Wisscha is seen for the first time since being released from a Turkish detention facility
Mel Ter Wisscha (left) and Leah Simone were laughing and dancing in TikTok videos that have since been deleted
She is understood to have since returned to Dubai.
Ms Simone has since deleted her TikTok account.
Buddle had been living in Northern Cyprus and in August was arrested and taken to Turkey before being deported to Australia.
He is charged with importing around 160kg of cocaine into Melbourne in May, 2021.
An overseas underworld source told the Daily Telegraph that Ngakuru ‘will be worried after what happened to Buddle because he is a New Zealand citizen where as Hux is a Turk so he is probably safe’.
Mark Buddle pictured with his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his two kids Mel Ter Wisscha
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