HELLS BOUGHT COCAINE IN BULK

The Hells Angels centralized their cocaine business to buy the drug in
wholesale quantities - as much as 1,000 kilograms at a time, jurors at a
biker megatrial were told yesterday.

A police undercover source testified he offered to sell 20 kilos of coke to
the gang, but was told it was not enough to interest them.

Stephane Sirois said an elite Hells chapter had set up "la table des
Nomads." All those in the gang had to buy their cocaine from there, he added.

In the past, Sirois said, gang members could buy from any other gang member
who had good-quality drugs. But between 1997 and '99, the elite Nomads
chapter set up the central system.

Sirois is a star witness at the trial of 17 bikers charged with
gangsterism, drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder.

He is a former member of the Rockers, a biker gang affiliated with the
Nomads. Sirois left the drug business to get married in 1997 but returned
two years later after volunteering to work undercover for police.

As a cover, he pretended to be opening up the virgin Ontario market for the
Quebec Hells.

By 1999, things had become more organized, he testified. The "table des
Nomads" bought in quantities of over 100 kilograms and sold to all gang
members and affiliated dealers, he said he was told.

Sirois has already said the Hells did something similar with Ecstasy when
they noticed it was becoming the drug of choice at all-night raves.

"When we started with Ecstasy, it came from all over," he testified. "We
decided to take control of Ecstasy in Montreal."

Sirois named Normand Belanger as part of the "table d'Ecstasy" in 1996.
Belanger, one of the 17 accused, was close to Nomad leader Maurice Boucher.

Sirois is heard on wiretaps asking another Rocker named Jean-Guy Bourgoin
if he knew of a good accountant. Bourgoin gave him the name of Georges
Therrien in Laval.

"He's one hell of a good guy," Bourgoin said. "He worked 25 years for the
government.

"And he was Rizutto's accountant - he's always worked for that Italian
clique. You give him cold cash - 'Here, wash this for me' - and he will
play with your money."

Bourgoin could have been referring to Vito Rizzuto, described by police as
the head of Montreal's Mafia.

Sirois wore a hidden microphone for many of his meetings with Bourgoin,
vice-president of the Rockers. It caught Bourgoin saying that about
one-third of his fellow gang members are hot-tempered psychopaths.

Sirois continues testifying today.