Brett Stevens announces retirement

[jf100]

Hi guys theres a couple of ads regarding this auction in the latest dragster magazine, looks like the vehicles have been painted, no mention of brett stevens racing, would it be unusual for the govt. to do this, or would it mean maybe he's selling them off, i think in the original for sale adds he ran in dragster there was a stack of motors and spares also.

[1970galaxie]

Being a govt auction, I would say that they are the results of a seizure, and the proceeds will go to the state.

[Melz]

You have waited for it... now here it is
http://www.pt.qld.gov.au/Auction---S...-Auctions.aspx

But its probably a repost...l

[Sprint347]

Some bargains there today, from another forum:

From another forum:

All the cars bikes,etc all sold.!!!!There was a reserve but after the first DS sold it just went ahead with whatever the highest bid was. Also to note that Bank of Queensland was the secured interest of the auction.
Brett's DS $74K
Makita DS $61K (begley wa)
SP DS $70,500
Kath's $70K
Burnout Ute $36K
F/Car $71,500 (phillips)
F/Car Body $1500
P/S Bike $55K
Nitro Bike $34K
Top Bike $38K
Burnout bike $7,900
There were a couple of phone bidders who won.
Brett and Kath were both in attandance.
Interesting day and really all went very cheaply.
Total Sale price $519,400.00

[Melz]

Burnout ute for $36k... BARGAIN!! Who brought it for me???

[CFOUR]

The motor in the burnout ute is 60k alone. What a bargain.

[SpoolMan]

It all went very cheap....nice to have money for toys like that..

[paule11]

Will be interesting to see who is racing what from that auction

[Scott]

All bargains.... that Ute, ohhhh that ute

[rodderz]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1225906424153

THREE-time Australian drag racing champion Brett "The Boss" Stevens has been ordered to stand trial on charges of producing, trafficking and supplying dangerous drugs. Stevens, 46, did not enter a plea as magistrate John Smith committed him for trial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane on four drugs charges allegedly committed in Brisbane and Gold Coast between August 2007 and November 2008.

Stevens is an 18-year Australian drag racing veteran and international motor racing legend.

It came during the second day of Stevens' committal hearing – in which it was alleged he threatened to kill one of his alleged drugs associates if he did not meet his ecstasy tablet sales quota.

The Brisbane Magistrates Court heard further evidence Brett Raymond Stevens, of Narangba, north of Brisbane, threatened to kill Martin "Marty" Kirkby if he "talked to anyone" or did "a deal" with authorities over their alleged drug operation.

Kirkby testified his friendship with Stevens was struck when the champion drag racer offered to build him a race car and let him drive for his team.

However, Kirkby said a short time later Stevens revealed his purchase of a pill press and plans to buy MDMA – known in illicit drug circles as ecstasy – from NSW contacts for $90,000 per kilogram.

He said Stevens told him of his plan to make a profit by making ecstasy tablets for street sale for between $9 and $9.50 per pill.

The court was told Stevens later confronted Kirkby about not selling the pills fast enough and warned him he could be killed if his sales quotas were not met.

"(Stevens told me if the pills) are not moved the people from Sydney are coming to shoot you," he said.

Kirkby said at one point four people, wearing balaclavas, tried to snatch him off the street and told him to think himself "lucky we didn't shoot you".

Kirkby's former fiancé, Crystal Barclay, gave evidence she was present during a lunch meeting in early 2008 when Stevens threatened to kill Kirkby.

Ms Barclay, who testified she was unaware of Kirkby's alleged drug dealings with Stevens, said: "I was with Marty (Kirby) when Brett (Stevens) threatened Marty."

"Brett said (to Kirkby) if you ever talk to anyone or do a deal ... I'll kill you."

Kirkby testified he had been granted immunity against prosecution over his alleged drug dealings with Stevens.

Stevens was one of the biggest names in Australian motorsport when he announced his retirement in December 2008 – having secured numerous national titles and world, national and strip records for both himself and his racing teams.

In February last year, Stevens was one five people arrested during police raids on 15 properties in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and New South Wales.

Stevens was granted conditional bail pending his trial on a date to be fixed.

[SpoolMan]

There will be a lot of news filtering through about this case in the coming months, what ever your views or opinion is on the matter, we all have the assumption of innocent until proven guilty.
So no personal attacks ranting on about anyone....

[Road Games]

Good call Mark ... But the Gold Coast is a small place and there was a lot of info floating around before this even hit the news...

[pottery beige]

if it looks like a duck... quacks like a duck... it usually is a duck.......

[motorcycles4eva]

is it duck season? or wabit season?

[v gate]

Always wonderd why my world got wobbly when i had Jacks.

[cortEA]

36k DAMN.... I can personally vouch that it was a total weapon as i won the ride on the sat nite at Tassie Nats, when we were driving to the burnout pad the cam was that lumpy it was spinning the wheels off the cam on idle, i guess 2500 hp will do that. oh yeah i have the tire from that burnout personally signed by brett

Cheers Corey

[MNM96]

Here we are 14 months and still no info about the drug charges, or a verdict afaik?

[Burnout]

A complicated case like this will take time to come to trial.
Some remands for complicated matters are just silly these days.

[MNM96]

Originally Posted by Burnout

A complicated case like this will take time to come to trial.
Some remands for complicated matters are just silly these days.

More than 3 years now??

[ebxr8240]

Yep seems to drag on ...

[Burnout]

Originally Posted by ebxr8240

Yep seems to drag on ...

Yes, it does; at least remand time isn't dead time like the old days.... Imagine copping 10 and finding out the couple you did on remand were down the drain.....

[ebxr8240]

Originally Posted by Burnout

Yes, it does; at least remand time isn't dead time like the old days.... Imagine copping 10 and finding out the couple you did on remand were down the drain.....

I was taken the pizz ....Drag... on...

[MNM96]

Originally Posted by ebxr8240

I was taken the pizz ....Drag... on...

Haha, I seen what you did there...................lol

[Burnout]

Originally Posted by ebxr8240

I was taken the pizz ....Drag... on...

An drag on it will.

[aussiblue]

It still on:
http://www.news.com.au/national/quee...-1226897654372

DRAG racing icon accused of running a drug business teamed up with a bikie to run an unlicensed mining venture.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul De Jersey labelled Queensland Quarry Group’s actions “extraordinary”.

But the venture, part-owned by an ex-Rebels bikie through the company DEFWOM, an acronym for “Don’t Ever F--- With Our Money”, has a new lease on life.

This is a boon for its site manager Brett Stevens, an ex-national drag champion facing trial in November over a multimillion-dollar ecstasy ring that police allege he ran in 2007 and 2008.

QQG had not yet won approval when it sold millions of dollars of material to construction companies under the umbrella of a single permit to sell to the Department of Transport and Main Roads.

But it has been given a chance to earn its permits after settling a costly legal battle with the cattle-farming family that owns the Roma site.

Maranoa compliance officer Warren Oxnam said council gave QQG a “show cause” notice over its quarry but was now considering a late development application.

Stevens took a job with DEFWOM after his personal fortune was frozen under proceeds of crime laws.

Stevens – who once had a racing team with multimillion-dollar sponsorships, as well as trucking, fibreglass, race car and manufacturing businesses – will rely on Legal Aid to fight charges of producing and trafficking MDMA.

“I got f---ing nothing left, mate,” he told The Courier-Mail.

Stevens says DEFWOM’s only business interest now is the quarry, which a valuer found was capable of producing $12 million a year of hard rock and sand.

A TMR spokesman said the department’s Roma depot did not use QQG.

[4vxc]

so he hasn't done any time?

[SpoolMan]

correct nothing has changed since being charged.

[aussiblue]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-2...charge/6637776

Former Australian drag racing champion Brett Stevens faces Supreme Court on drug charges

By Katherine Moroney


A former Australian drag racing champion has faced the Supreme Court in Brisbane on charges of trafficking, producing and supplying ecstasy.

The criminal trial into Brett Raymond Stevens, 50, began in Brisbane today.

He has pleaded not guilty to three charges: trafficking in MDMA between 1 August 2007 and 4 February 2009; production of MDMA in a quantity exceeding 2 grams; and unlawfully supplying MDMA on 1 July 2008.

Stevens, or "Skunk" as he is also known, was an Australian drag racing champion before retiring in 2008.

A year later he was arrested with police alleging he was at the centre of a large ecstasy operation involving tens of thousands of pills and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Today, prosecutor Daniel Boyle alleged Stevens was the ring leader in the drug operation.

While he successfully distanced himself from the operation, he is inextricably intertwined with others in the trafficking, production and supply of drugs.

Daniel Boyle, prosecutor

"It will be alleged that Stevens was a puppet master in running his entrepreneurial drug business and was able to coordinate the running of the business without much hands on contact," Mr Boyle said.

"While he successfully distanced himself from the operation, he is inextricably intertwined with others in the trafficking, production and supply of drugs."

The alleged drug operation ran between July 2007 and February 2009 and was said to have produced up to 100,000 ecstasy pills a week, supplying throughout Queensland.

Stevens's arrest followed an electronic surveillance operation, involving telephone intercepts and video surveillance, which the Queensland police ran for months.

His defence barrister Stephen Courtney claimed that it was a complex case, relying heavily on circumstantial evidence and that there are no clear recordings of drug dealings.

"The prosecution are asking you to infer from all the circumstances that particular conversations are about drugs," Mr Courtney said.

First witness speaks on involvement in alleged operation

The prosecution's first witness, Martin Kirkby, stated that he allegedly made $800,000 from his involvement in the alleged drug operation.

"Brett was to get $9 per tablet, and whatever we sold them for after that was our profit," Kirkby said.

Kirkby's involvement in the alleged enterprise ended when he couldn't keep up and sell all the pills that were being made.

He testified he was then threatened by Stevens.

"He said to me that he needed it to pay the people in Sydney again and that people were coming to get us if the amount of pills weren't sold to pay these people," Kirkby said.

The prosecution will call over 90 witnesses and the trial has been set down for 15 days.

[aussiblue]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...21-gigwbj.html

Brett Raymond Stevens appeared in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday for the first day of his trial, pleading not guilty to producing and supplying a dangerous drug between August 2007 and February 2009.

Stevens was a stalwart of the drag-racing circuit who, at his final race meeting at Willowbank in December 2008, was awarded a plaque in recognition of his 18 years in the sport.

The court heard Stevens first arranged to buy a pill press by asking an acquaintance, Martin Kirkby, to drive it from Sydney to his Burpengary house piece-by-piece.

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Prosecutor Danny Boyle said Kirkby, who is in custody, will testify he helped unload the machine from a utility and was asked whether he knew anyone who could "get rid of pills".

The pill press produced 5,000 pills an hour and Stevens allegedly organised the purchase of MDMA for $90,000 a kilogram to manufacture and sell tablets for $9 each.

The network produced 10,000 pills per kilo of MDMA, with dealers pocketing a 50 cent mark-up.

But Stevens was careful to not be directly linked to the operation, Mr Boyle said.

"It will be alleged that Stevens was essentially the puppet-master," he said.

His approach was illustrated by an intercepted January 2009 conversation with his mistress, who asked him "what if you get caught?".

"Answer: I'm not touching anything," Mr Boyle said.

"His statement ... demonstrates his method to distance himself from the transactions.

"It is the crown case that ... he was the principle protagonist in the organised, nefarious trade of illegal drugs."

The trial, before Justice Peter Lyons, has been set down for four weeks.


Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...#ixzz3gYJagaHz

[aussiblue]

This is old but interesting:

http://www.cartercapner.com.au/boq-h...-winning-form/

A sports champion who refused to give his solicitors authority to accept service of mortgage default proceedings – and whose assets were frozen on suspicion of criminal activity – has been ordered to deliver up possession of his transport depot in semi-rural Narangba.

In race winning formBank of Queensland overcame its difficulties in securing service of process with an order from the Supreme Court that his solicitor email the documents to Brett “The Boss” Stevens in Roma.

BOQ had loaned the three-time Australian drag racing champion $1.2 million in February 2006 and secured it over the at 82-100 Callaghan Road property. A second loan of $300,000 to refinance existing debt was made on the same day on the same security.

The former national and international title holder was arrested in January 2009 and charged with drug manufacturing and trafficking offences for which he has been committed to stand trial.

An order was made in February 2009 restraining all of Mr Steven’s property – including the five lots subject to the BOQ mortgage – in a Criminal Proceeds Confiscation Act case.

His car and motorbike collection were put up for public sale in January 2010 and the proceeds retained by the State.

Surprisingly, Stevens was able to keep up his mortgage obligations until December 2010 when the first default occurred and when the bank issued its proceedings. BOQ claims an outstandings total of $1.8 million under both loans.

Stevens had made a successful application to the Financial Ombudsman’s Service in December 2010 which required the bank to suspend its recovery action. Agreement was then reached to allow him the opportunity to sell the sites at least at valuation, subject to CPCA court approval.

In 2012, somewhat remarkably, Stevens – who remained in occupation of the Narangba site – obtained the consent of the bank and the court to sign a contract for its sale to a company controlled by his wife for $2.23 million.

This company was unable to obtain finance, settlement did not occur and it subsequently went into liquidation.

In 2012 – to meet further moves from the bank for vacant possession of the properties – Stevens entered into a further contract, this time to Defwom Group P/L which also gained BOQ consent and that of the court.

Predictably that deal also failed to settle but because it was a term of the sale that Defwom be permitted to occupy the site until settlement, BOQ needed its possession order against both Defwom and Stevens.

Although this unusual feature had not been brought to her attention when in the 2012 CPCA contract approval application, Her Honour viewed as “very curious” in the recent hearing, that the Defwom contract did not require the payment of any deposit but allowed the buyer immediate possession.

Because at the same time Stevens was in Defwom’s employ the court’s suspicion was raised as to whether any employment “remuneration being paid to Stephens included compensations for Defwom’s occupation of his property”.

Somewhat impatient by the extensive prevarication, the court ordered that BOQ be provided vacant possession of the land forthwith and was un-impressed by Defwom’s request that it should be allowed 12 to 14 weeks to relocate.

“In my view, if someone is occupying a property without paying any rent a property which is subject to restraint of the court, that person ought to be vacating immediately”.

The court registries list a half dozen or so other debt recovery claims against Stevens and his companies Brett Stevens Racing P/L and Brett Stevens Transport P/L.

Bank of Queensland Limited v Stevens & Ors [2013] QSC 169 Brisbane Atkinson J 20/06/2013