Pasilika Naufahu

Pasilika Naufahu, who is of Tongan descent, was jailed in February 2021 by Justice Graham Lang over his role in a money laundering and drugs scheme.

He was arrested following a series of raids across Auckland in April 2019, in which more than $3.7 million in assets was seized along with luxury cars, motorbikes, high-end luggage and jewellery.

Naufahu moved to Sydney with his family when he was one year old. In 2016 he was deported to New Zealand after short prison stints in Australia.

A High Court jury found Naufahu guilty in October of money laundering and conspiring to supply the class B drug pseudoephedrine.

He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Justice Graham Lang in the High Court in Auckland today.

The public gallery was filled with supporters, including Naufahu's wife.

Naufahu, president of the gang's New Zealand chapter, was arrested in 2019 after a large scale police operation.

He was found guilty last year of money laundering and conspiring to supply pseudoephedrine.