Members of the Bandidos - who acquired four new chapters in Indonesia during "Bandidos Bali Bike Week" earlier this year - are looking to set up business as far afield as Japan

<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="article-media article-media-large media-count-1 first-image-650w366h" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px !important; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font: normal normal normal 13px/1.231 Arial, Helvetica, san-serif; min-height: 366px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><div style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; 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padding: 5px; margin: 0px;"> </p></div></div></div><div class="story-intro" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; font: normal normal 400 17px/21px LiberationSerifRegular, Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">BIKIE Inc Australia is spreading its wings overseas.</strong></p></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Local Hells Angels and Bandidos club members own nightspots in Thailand tourist centres that have become popular haunts for bikies worldwide.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Not to be outdone, members of the notorious Gold Coast chapter of the Finks are trying to follow in their footsteps with their own Thai beachhead, according to police.</p><div class="story-related story-sidebar block-style" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 8px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; 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border: 0px initial initial;"><a href="http://www.news.com.au/australian-bikies-hells-angels-and-bandidos-club-members-own-nightspots-in-thailand-tourist-centres/story-e6freoof-1226166279473#sidebar-start" style="font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #0373b3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></a></p></div></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Members of the Bandidos - who acquired four new chapters in Indonesia during "Bandidos Bali Bike Week" earlier this year - are looking to set up business as far afield as Japan, a Queensland police source told <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Courier-Mail</em>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Thailand was significant as a source of chemicals for drug manufacture and trafficking and scrutiny of Gold Coast bikies' travel would show "a lot of trips" to the country, the officer said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">"A lot of them are looking into Thailand - it gives them the opportunity to source pharmaceuticals. Hells Angels and Bandidos have got premises in Thailand.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">"Of course, the Finks can't be left behind and they're looking too.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 487px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">"Nationally, the Bandidos are looking to get into Japan. They're already in Asia."</p></span></p>

Members of the Bandidos - who acquired four new chapters in Indonesia during "Bandidos Bali Bike Week" earlier this year - are looking to set up business as far afield as Japan

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