Inside the designer drug gang which sold Dior-plated bricks of cocaine to Sydney’s wealthy

They had gang nicknames like Alien and Airforce1 which they used to communicate over encrypted cyber group chats while trafficking drugs including Dior-plated bricks of cocaine.

They sold mountains of cocaine, including the vacuum sealed blocks of cocaine with the French designer brand name stamped on the surface, along with methamphetamine and MDMA, stashed in freezer bags and sold to customers in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.

The gang members, some of whom had bikie links, swapped cash for drugs concealed in Coles shopping bags in car parks, unaware that by late 2020 they had been infiltrated by detectives from NSW’s gang and drug squads.

The gang members kept bags and bags of the drugs inside their suburban flats, as well as firearms, scales, a vacuum sealer, an electronic money counter and massive wads of cash.

But after an undercover police officer posed as buyer and joined the gang, it took only 21 days to bring them down. 

Details of the ‘Dior cocaine gang’, who were also obsessed with designer label clothing, which was busted in a stunning police sting almost two years ago,  emerged during the sentencing of two of them on Friday.

The bosses, Jake Davies and Abbas Hijazi – believed to have used the code names Cleo and Military Mind in their cyber encrypted chats which were  monitored by undercover police – have already pleaded guilty and will be sentenced later in the year.

On Friday, NSW District Court Judge Pauline David sentenced two gang members – Alfredo San Giorgio and David Anthony Coleman – whose roles she described as warehousing, packing and selling the gang’s drugs. 

Alfredo San Giorgio (above) whose gang name was Airforce1 supplied massive amounts of cocaine, MDMA and ice in a Coles bag he handed over to another gang member in a car park 

NSW Police have busted an alleged criminal syndicate linked to bikies who are accused of dealing illegal drugs and guns, after raids across Sydney and Wollongong

The bust in April 2021 made international headlines when police busted their way into properties across Sydney and Wollongong, discovering evidence of the gang’s illicit activity and the designer clobber bought with the ill-gotten gains. 

Police seized 12.5kg of illicit drugs with a combined street value of $12million, $1.2million in cash, Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton sunglasses, and the Christian Dior-plated cocaine bricks. 

Six men were arrested in the raids, with one man being hauled out in Gucci slides while another was handcuffed in his underwear.  

San Giorgio, 49, pleaded guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drugs and supplying a large commercial quantity.

The court heard on Friday that San Giorgio had the encrypted gang name of Airforce1 and had supplied 1.33 kg of methamphetamine, 2.5kg of cocaine and 1.8kg of the drug MDMA.

Coleman, 38, whose gang name was Alien, pleaded guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, supplying a large commercial quantity, knowingly deal with proceeds of crime, and possessing an unregistered firearm. 

The court heard that Coleman supplied 834g of MDMA, 2.46kg of methamphetamine and 1.18kg of cocaine and was found in possession of an unlicensed .45 Colt semi-automatic pistol.

Judge David relayed the workings of the drug gang,  saying the principals Davies and Hijazi first had police their crack into drug operation in October 2020, then place a undercover operative (UCO) in the gang by January 2021.

The pattern of dealing with Coleman, San Giorgio and the UCO saw Giorgio getting the drugs and handing them to Coleman inside a plastic Coles bag in his apartment car park in the inner Sydney suburb of Zetland.

Coleman then sold the drugs to the UCO near his home in Sydney’s southern suburbs which included the one exchange of $21,000 from the cop for Coleman’s Coles bag containing freezer bag with 277.7 gram of MDMA of 42 per cent purity.

In another drug swap, on April 20, 2021, Coleman collected the bag of drugs from Giorgio at Zetland, met the UCO and took $37,000 in exchange for a shopping bag d containing 277.2g of MDMA of 49pc purity and 139.4g of methamphetamine of 79pc purity.

Detectives had been investigating the supply of drugs and alleged criminal activities in the state’s south since September 2019 – allegedly finding Dior-branded cocaine and a Rolex watch

Strike Force Gommera was set up to investigate the syndicate’s link to Sydney-based outlaw motorcycle gangs (pictured, one of the men arrested)

The court heard that the UCO had conversations with the gang’s principal Jake Davies over the cyber encrypted chats in which Davies offered the cop ice and cocaine which he declined, and Davies admitted regarding his MDMA ‘bro my prices have gone up a bit’.

On Friday David Coleman and Alfredo Giorgio appeared in prison greens via AVL from Parklea maximum prison and John Morony Correctional Centre.

Both men faced life in prison for their drug crimes, but Judge David gave them greatly reduced sentences due to their early guilty pleas, backgrounds of trauma and drug addiction which included bodybuilder Coleman’s steroid and cocaine addictions.  

She sentenced Coleman to a maximum six years and seven months, with a non parole period which could see his reelase in March 2025, and San Giorgio to six years and three months with an earliest release date of October 2024.

Another member of the drug gang, Ibrahim Kansou has already been sentenced to three years in prison to be served as an intensive corrections order for supplying a prohibited drug.

In July Davies will be sentenced for several counts of supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, and Hijazi will be sentenced for take part in the supply of a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug. 

Louis Vuitton sunglasses were among the items seized in raids across Sydney and Wollongong, police say, as well as bags of cash

Cops found $1.2million in cash during the raids across Sydney and Wollongong in 2021