Mark Buddle

Mark Douglas Buddle (born 1984) is an Australian outlaw biker, criminal and an alleged gangster.

Comancheros Buddle was born in Maroubra and had what was described as a "gritty" childhood. On 7 June 2010, the security guard Gary Allibon was murdered during a robbery, and the New South Wales police view Buddle as a "person of interest" in regards to Allibon's slaying. In 2011, he became the national president of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club after the previous national president Duax "Dax" Ngakuru fled Australia to Turkey.

In December 2011, he was involved in an exceptionally violent brawl in Spearmint Rhino strip club in Melbourne. In December 2012, he was arrested in Queensland to be extradited to New South Wales where he was wanted on charges of being involved in a pub brawl. In January 2014, he was arrested on charges of threatening to murder a Queensland police officer in December 2012. There was reported to be much tension between Buddle who attempted to run the Comanchero from his exile in Dubai vs. Murray who ran the Comanchero from Melbourne. In September 2017, Buddle sent a text message to all Comancheros saying: "I'm the fucking commander of the world...no one is to touch another member or set up another chapter without my permission". Buddle used the supposedly super-secure encrypted ANOM texting app on his cell phone to communicate. Unknown to him, the ANOM texting service was owned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which installed a "backdoor" on the ANOM app which allowed all of the texts to be decrypted. As part of Operation Trojan Shield, the police forces of Europe, Australia and New Zealand were allowed access to the ANOM texts. In 2021, Buddle is alleged to have sent out texts calling for a "commission" similar to "the Commission" that rules the American Mafia to control the prices of drugs in Australia. In one text, Buddle is said to have complained that the price of methamphetamine had dropped from $250,000 Australian dollars per kilogram to $80,000 Australian dollars per kilogram "because there is NO STRUCTURE, no rules, no reasoning and to be honest there’s NO SENSE". He then settled in North Cyprus, a state only recognised by Turkey and which has no extradition treaty with Australia. Buddle is the object of intense media attention in Australia. In 2023, Alex Vare was reported to have replaced Buddle as the new "supreme commander" of the Comancheros. Mel Terwisscha, Buddle's girlfriend and the mother of his children, announced that she left Buddle after his marriage to a Turkish Cypriot woman. Terwisscha was reported to have been "very upset" after being arrested in Bodrum. Terwisscha stated: "I haven't seen Mark for a year. He's the father of my children. They see him, I don't. My kids have gone to and from [Northern Cyprus] but I have stayed away."