Dark secret of Queensland's tattoo industry and link to bikies

BIKIE Inc's ugly bootprint on the tattoo business is the dark secret of a $100 million a year industry.
Thousands of customers inked in Queensland parlours are unwittingly lining the pockets of organised crime figures, who include convicted arsonists, heroin traffickers, ice dealers and notorious underworld hard men, the Courier-Mail reported.

While Bandidos and Finks outlaw motorcycle club bosses win celebrity endorsements from footballers and US rappers for their Brisbane and Gold Coast parlours, their non-bikie "civilian" rivals are all too often targets for extortion, intimidation and violence.