Twin Portuguese brothers, immigrants to Australia and living in Brisbane, have been convicted for using a locksmith service as a front for a highly successful methamphetamine distribution business.
The Australian police claim the twins made profits totaling the equivalent of €1.7 million which was channeled to Hells Angels gangs.
Bruno and Nuno da Silva will spend 9 and 7 years in prison respectively.
The brothers, who used their connections to the local Hells Angels to force customers to pay debts, also ran a crystal meth drugs business with some of the profit also reverting to the biking gang.
"There is no evidence that they bought Ferraris or helicopters," said the prosecutor but the twins raised suspicions in 2004 when one of them was caught with the equivalent of €87,000 in a grip bag.
Bruno da Silva said the money was a wedding present for this brother who was marrying a lawyer.
They were arrested in 2013 and have been on remand ever since.
