An alleged member of a Gold Coast-based outlaw motorcycle gang has been arrested and stripped of his visa, and will be deported to New Zealand.
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Queensland Police and Australian Border Force officers arrested the man on Thursday afternoon at Beenleigh, saying the man was a senior member of the gang.
The man's visa was cancelled under s501 of the Migration Act and is in detention until he is deported.
ABF Investigations commander Graeme Grosse said the Act gave provisions to cancel the visas of foreign nationals if they posed a risk to the community or "where they fail the character test through their involvement in criminal activity, including as part of OMCGs".
“Any non-citizen with an extensive criminal history and involvement with a criminal organisation, such as an OMCG, can expect to have their Australian visa cancelled and to be removed from Australia," he said.
Since December 2014 almost 30 Queensland-based organised crime members have had their visas cancelled or refused.
