The son of a notorious mobster associated with the Hells Angels Raynald Desjardins boy reportedly runs a biker loan business
The son of the kingpin Raynald Desjardins would be associated with two "very influential" members of the Hells Angels who have close links with the Rizzuto clan. This is what internal police documents on organized crime in Quebec reveal in 2021, to which our Investigation Bureau had access.
This information would partly explain the lull that has reigned in the Montreal mafia since 2019, after fifteen years of deadly blood feuds between rival factions.
Information is circulating that a truce could have been intervened earlier this year in the conflict between Raynald Desjardins and the Rizzuto clan. Imprisoned for plotting the assassination of a mafia opponent, Raynald Desjardins was himself the target of a murder plot orchestrated in 2015 by ex-Hells Angels chief Maurice "Mom" Boucher. The latter is imprisoned for life for the murders of two correctional officers in 1997. Private loans The Hells Angels Martin Robert and Stéphane Plouffe are at the head of a criminal organization "with considerable financial means" which has for several years controlled the "lucrative" narcotics market on the North Shore of Montreal and in the Laurentians, according to reports that we were able to consult. Mathieu Desjardins, 32, is identified as one of the "associates" of this group. The Sûreté du Québec writes that Martin Robert is allegedly involved in the financing of a private loan business held by Raynald Desjardins.
The latter's son, Mathieu, "would have taken back control of this business since his father's imprisonment," according to these documents.
The organization led by the two members of the Hells from the Montreal chapter also maintains good contacts with most of the other major factions of Quebec organized crime.
Mafia financier
Among other things, the police consider Plouffe and Robert among the associates and financiers of the Rizzuto clan, which has once again become the dominant group of the Montreal mafia.
They are also in a "relationship" with Davide Barberio, the "street boss" of the Mafia that the police recently instigated to calm things down in the northeast of the city, struggling with an outbreak of shootings between gangs, as our Bureau of Investigation reported last week.
? Police believe that Robert and Plouffe's group has expanded its activities elsewhere in the country as well as abroad, where it has "extensive contacts" in cocaine trafficking and money laundering.
Arrested with a gun downtown
Raynald Desjardins’s son was caught with an illegally acquired pistol after his father was targeted by a killer with an AK-47 ten years ago.
On the morning of September 16, 2011, a gunman fired 17 times in the direction of Raynald Desjardins's SUV, in full traffic, in Laval, but the kingpin escaped unscathed.
On June 6 of the following year, Mathieu Desjardins, then 23, was arrested in possession of a loaded 9mm caliber pistol while in a jewelry store in downtown Montreal.
"Stupid" gesture
The latter then pleaded guilty, while qualifying his gesture as "stupid".
He claimed in court that he obtained the weapon because he was "afraid for his safety" after the attempted murder of his father.
In April 2016, Judge Jean-Pierre Boyer imposed 12 months in prison on him, concluding that it was an "isolated act" by a young man whose only criminal record remains.
The magistrate also noted at that time that Mathieu Desjardins was "not known to be affiliated with any criminal organization".
“He knows that being the son of Raynald Desjardins has earned him a certain prestige with various people, but he claims to have been able to remain detached from it. He denies having any attraction for marginality and delinquency, "said Judge Boyer.
