Australian Hells Angels member arrested in Bangkok.

December 8, 2023December 7, 2023 Tanyaporn R.

A member of Australia’s Hells Angels was arrested in a Bangkok condo. The man is one of the leaders and entered Thailand using another person’s passport. Police Lieutenant General Ittipol Ittisawannachai along with related officials from the Immigration Police reported the case on 6 December 2023. The Australian man has a long criminal record connected to drug and weapon cases. Elices 31 years old from Australia is facing charges of passport fraud that can lead to causing harm to other persons or the people.

Immigration police discovered information that an Australian man had entered Thailand using someone’s else passport. This passport belongs to an Italian man. The Investigation team contacted the Australian Embassy in Thailand. Together they continued the investigation and discovered the man was Elices. The passport is a real passport belonging to an Italian man named Gjini. Elices traveled into Thailand on a rented private jet. Immigration Police compared the fingerprint record of the person who used Gjini’s passport to enter Thailand. Australian officials searched the fingerprint database which revealed the fingerprint matched Elices.

Thai officials then checked the security footage and confirmed Elices was the man who used the passport. He entered Thailand with a tourist visa valid for 30 days. Elices is wanted in Australia as one of the leaders of Hells Angels. The group is related to drug smuggling and weapons smuggling into Australia. Elises had 38 charges against him in his home country. 36 of these charges are related to weapons. He also is facing a charge of smuggling in 14 kilograms of methamphetamine and a charge relating to involvement in an international crime case. Elises also has history of robbery and assaulting an officer. Elises was arrested inside a condo in Thong Lo, Bangkok. Inside the condo was both his real passport and Gjini’s passport.