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[village_person]

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-...

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

[tasfleur]

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.

[village_person]

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@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.

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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