11 Sep 2020

Comancheros president worried phone was bugged, court told

From Morning Report, 8:16 am on 11 September 2020

A jury has heard the New Zealand president of the Comancheros motorcycle gang suspected his phone was bugged, and fretted about being arrested eight months before a major police bust.

Five people, including the boss Pasilika Naufahu, are on trial in the High Court at Auckland facing drug, money laundering and organised crime charges.

Jurors have been told intercepted calls show coded conversations, discussion of hundreds of thousands of dollars and apparently a suspicion that police had tapped mobile phones.

RNZ's Jordan Bond reports.