LAW & ORDER
Mongols bikie club expels state president Frank Dieni
ANTHONY DOWSLEY CRIME REPORTER SUNDAY HERALD SUN FEBRUARY 08, 2014 7:00PM SHARE
Bikie club expels its president
Frank Dieni has been accused by Mongol club members of breaching its constitution.
VICTORIA’S newest outlaw bikie club has thrown its first state president out in “bad standing’’.
The Sunday Herald Sun understands Frank Dieni was given his marching orders last Sunday at the Port Melbourne chapter.
The Echo taskforce has been aware for weeks of tensions within the club and a move to overthrown its Victorian leadership.
Mr Dieni, who crossed over to the Mongols MC in a nationwide “patch over’’ of the Finks MC, has been accused by club members of breaching its constitution.
Bikie sources, however, differ in the reasons Mr Dieni was expelled from the Mongols.
Police, however, suspect a major uprising within newly recruited members from within our jails was an issue for Mr Dieni and the club before his departure.
The Mongols are yet to install a new state president, who will preside over an estimated 120 members.
Violence was not believed to have been used against Mr Dieni despite the tense situation.
Sources say about 10 senior members met Mr Dieni to tell him he was out.
The martial arts expert was formally a sergeant-at-arms of the Finks and has contested the force’s right to seize his registered guns.
It was alleged he had threatened an officer during a raid on his Melton property.
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At a bail application a court heard Mr Dieni told police he had authority to “hold the boys back, but I also control them’’.
“I’m going to unleash them and tell them to smash every copper dog ...’’ the court heard.
Mr Dieni’s lawyer, Alan Swanwick, told the hearing his client had no convictions and was singled out because he was a member of a motorcycle club.
He was later found guilty of six of 19 charges he faced in relation to the altercation, but no conviction was recorded.
A magistrate fined him $3000.
Mr Dieni’s expulsion from the Mongols is not the first time he has fallen foul of his “brotherhood’’.
The former bikie “enforcer’’ was a member of Bros MC but fell out badly with them, defecting to the Finks.
There are unconfirmed reports that a close associate of Mr Dieni’s, jailed bikie Richard Michail, has been moved to protective custody inside one of Victoria’s prisons.