A well-known convicted fraudster accused of scheming with an imprisoned double murderer, a trailblazing meth cook and two high-ranking Hells Angels members to import a huge haul of cocaine into the United States has argued the authorities have it wrong — he only intended to bring the drugs to New Zealand.
That was one of the arguments in the High Court at Auckland today as Miles John McKelvy, 65, appealed a district court judge’s decision in May paving the way for extradition to the US.
US federal prosecutors in Texas want to put McKelvy on trial alongside two currently at-large New Zealanders: Auckland Hells Angels member Murray Michael Matthews and chemist Marc Patrick Johnson, who has earned the criminal distinction of being one of New Zealand’s first meth cooks.
Authorities say the trio — with Romanian Hells Angels chapter president Marius Lazar and convicted double murderer Wen Hui Cui — were duped in 2020 by an undercover officer with the US Drug Enforcement Administration posing as a large-scale drug trafficker.
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