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The jury has found Comanchero gang leader Pasilika Naufahu and member Connor Clausen guilty of money laundering and conspiring to supply pseudoephedrine, a class B drug.
Pasilika Naufahu, head of the Comanchero gang.
Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook
A jury delivered the verdict in Auckland High Court this afternoon after nearly two days of deliberation.
The trial lasted almost four weeks.
The leader of the Comanchero gang, Pasilika Naufahu, her partner Connor Clausen and a person with name suppression were tried.
The person with the name suppression has also been convicted of money laundering.
Naufahu was charged with money laundering and conspiracy to supply pseudoephedrine, a class B drug, after the charge of conspiracy to import a class A drug was dropped.
Clausen was charged with conspiring to supply pseudoephedrine, and the other person with provisional name suppression was charged with money laundering.
The trio were arrested in 2019 after a police operation that generated millions of dollars in property, cars, motorcycles and cash.
Last week, the case was sharply narrowed when two defendants had their charges largely dropped, with the total number of charges dropping from 11 to four and the number of people on trial dropping from five to three.
Naufahu is scheduled to be sentenced at the end of November, and Clausen and the person whose name will be removed in December.
