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Try not to cry

village_person — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:15:57 GMT

Bikie boss Alex Vella wants to come ‘home’ to Australia

EXILED bikie boss Alex Vella has made a desperate plea to be allowed back into Australia, saying he is broke and couch-surfing with friends.

In an exclusive interview with News Corp, the man who headed the nation’s biggest bikie gang, the Rebels, pleaded for his Australian residency visa to be returned.

“I’m an innocent man and I believe in respect and people respect me for that,’’ he said, from the run-down apartment in which he lives in Malta, the small Mediterranean island of his birth.

“I am not a kidnapper. I may have been in a few hotel fights but that is all.”

Vella, 64, became one of the first people to be exiled from Australia in 2014 when the Government introduced new laws stripping Australian residency from dual nations deemed to be on unfit character to be allowed to stay in Australia.

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Vella had lived in Australia for 47 years when his residency visa was cancelled under section 501 of the Migration Act, which allows authorities to remove residents of poor character.

He has also been targeted by a Government task-force of police, tax office and social security investigators, and says he’s been told he owes the Australian Taxation Office $1.8 million.

The Australian Taxation Office declined to answer questions about his tax debt.

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http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/bikie-boss-alex-vella-wants-to-come-home-to-australia/news-story/eafccbc3c6d3231acec29afdda4adca9

Dry your eyes princess. You seem to have plenty of dosh.

Re: Try not to cry

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:38:48 GMT

I really really tried

I tried and tried a lot

But then I cried and cried

now my nose is full of snot

The end

Re: Try not to cry

tasfleur — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:51:32 GMT

Bad bad bad Bear .....

Re: Try not to cry

davidc4430 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:14:58 GMT

maybe during his 47 years as mother teresas understudy he should have found time to become an australian citizen and renounced his place of birth?

Re: Try not to cry

tasfleur — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:45:24 GMT

"maybe during his 47 years as mother teresas understudy he should have found time to become an australian citizen and renounced his place of birth?"

Re: Try not to cry

kopenhagen5 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:45:57 GMT

Now lets see -

Let in someone arrested for $15,000 worth of marujiana, meth lab, stabbing two males and assaulting a female. Visa cancelled and deported.

Or let in a family with 2 lovely children and the parents bring renewable energy engineering skillsets to Australia as well as an excess of $500,000 and have legally applied for a visa.

Gee, too close to call.

Re: Try not to cry

the_hawk* — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 04:28:16 GMT

I guess you all know he has no criminal convictions?

I also assume you know that even if you have become an Australian citizen that it doesn't automatically revoke your native citizenship meaning you are now a dual citezen and they can revoke your Australian citizenship for no bigger reason than some polly doesn't like you.

Re: Try not to cry

the_hawk* — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:20:44 GMT

and another with nothing more than a few driving offences

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2017/s4628070.htm

Re: Try not to cry

imastawka — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:33:31 GMT

@the_hawk* wrote:
I guess you all know he has no criminal convictions?

1990

Vella is jailed after police find $15,000 worth of marijuana in his home.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/bikie-boss-alex-vella-wants-to-come-home-to-australia/news-story/a8fc79ad9b33f15ee986083c2e69a369

Re: Try not to cry

davidc4430 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:47:06 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
@the_hawk* wrote:
I guess you all know he has no criminal convictions?

1990
Vella is jailed after police find $15,000 worth of marijuana in his home.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/bikie-boss-alex-vella-wants-to-come-home-to-australia/news-story/a8fc79ad9b33f15ee986083c2e69a369

It was for personal use man! for goodness sakes!

Re: Try not to cry

tasfleur — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 07:45:30 GMT

I can't argue with that Hawk. I do hope that it isn't a 'witch hunt' for the sake of it where a government, any government, can and does deport people who in reality do not deserve to be pushed out on a whim.

Nothing surprises me any more though, I thought I had seen it all, but I haven't.

Re: Try not to cry

village_person — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:30:13 GMT

@the_hawk* wrote:
I guess you all know he has no criminal convictions?

I also assume you know that even if you have become an Australian citizen that it doesn't automatically revoke your native citizenship meaning you are now a dual citezen and they can revoke your Australian citizenship for no bigger reason than some polly doesn't like you.

That reminds me of another 'saint' who only ever had 1 conviction.

Al Capone committed many crimes, including bootlegging, tax evasion and murder. He was a known mobster who was involved in every aspect of street crime, but was only tried and sentenced for income tax evasion.

https://www.reference.com/government-politics/crimes-did-al-capone-commit-9753540dd28e8033