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update:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/p...90207-80g9.html
Party's over for wild Viper Room
AFTER months of bashings, brawls, shootings, licence breaches and the arrest of a co-owner on cocaine charges, the notorious Viper Room nightclub in South Yarra is being shut down for three months.
The Chapel Street venue — a "magnet for wannabe gangsters" according to police — is also the target of a violent stand-over man, who has extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars and assaulted the club's former licensee.
A deal negotiated by Prahran police is expected to be approved this month by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which will force the infamous dance club to close its doors. If it reopens, Viper Room's trading hours will be cut to 3am.
After a number of violent incidents, the club's owners now face threats from a former professional boxer and security guard.
According to Viper Room sources, the former Australian champion has terrorised club directors and management over the past six months with demands of about $200,000. "They fear for their lives, and for good reason. This guy is frightening. He doesn't care about anyone, including the cops," a source said.
Several payments have already been made to the former boxing champion, who stormed into the club with an associate two weeks ago. A terrified employee called Prahran police as the stand-over man threatened a manager and demanded money.
A Prahran police spokesman confirmed that eight officers responded and escorted a man from the club about 4am on February 1. A police vehicle was also damaged by a second person, believed to be an associate of the ex-boxer.
"It's not for me to say why management asked us to remove the man. But the club has not made a formal complaint regarding being stood over," the spokesman said.
The ex-boxer is also believed to have bashed the Viper Room's co-owner and former licensee Peter Sakkas, who was admitted to hospital.
Mr Sakkas was arrested and charged with cocaine possession last year, after a random vehicle search by St Kilda police. He is a close associate of underworld figure Michael "Eyes" Pastras, who was shot twice in the buttock outside his Brunswick home last October. Purana detectives believe the shooting was linked to Melbourne's drug trade and have interviewed a former South Yarra nightclub owner in connection with the attack, but have not laid charges. Mr Pastras gave evidence at the murder trial of Mick Gatto, and earned the name "Eyes" after receiving a $25,000 pair of diamond-studded glasses from slain hitman Andrew Veniamin and jailed killer Carl Williams.
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