Bailed bikie plans party

NOTORIOUS Gold Coast bikie enforcer Nick “The Knife” Forbes has vowed “I’ll die a Mongol” after being granted bail on charges relating to an alleged multi-milliondollar boiler room scam.

As he left the Brisbane watchhouse yesterday, Forbes said he was going to “party”.

He and his defence lawyer Michael Gatenby indicated he would contest the charges.

Forbes, a former member of the Finks bikie gang “terror team” who later joined the Mongols gang, was extradited from South Australia on Tuesday, where he had been serving jail time for unrelated offences.

He has been charged with money laundering, fraud, disobedience of a lawful order and failing to appear in court.

The Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday heard Forbes was expected to have been released from custody in South Australia, after serving a sentence for affray, but was charged with the fresh offences dating back to 2012 this week.

Police allege Forbes was part of a $20 million boiler room fraud scam also allegedly involving former Gold Coast detective Mick Featherstone and former Married At First Sight love rat Daniel Webb.

During a bail hearing yesterday, Mr Gatenby told the court the allegations related to Forbes receiving more than $30,000 in funds allegedly linked to the scam.

“There is alleged to be a substantial fraud … that over a period of nine months $35,400 went into my client’s account, but that’s it. That’s as good as it gets,” he said.

“What did he do? There is no evidence of that.

“What was his level of knowledge? There is no evidence of that.”

Mr Gatenby told the court Featherstone, alleged to be the main offender in the syndicate, had been granted bail with no conditions that stopped him travelling overseas.

He said Forbes’ alleged offending was at the lower end of the scale and it would be “offensive” to keep him in custody.

The matter will court on June 17. return to