Life just got tougher for outlaw motorcycle gang members. They will now struggle to get insurance.

A company that owned a brothel in Canberra which burned to the ground on New Year's Day 2012 has been refused a $770,000 insurance payout because it failed to disclose that its sole director was the sargent-at-arms in the Comancheros motorcycle gang.

Fidel Tukel, manager of a brothel in the north of Canberra. Credit:Facebook

In a landmark ruling that will have implications for bikies and organised crime figures, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled that failure to disclose such links invalidates insurance - even insurance taken out over legitimate businesses.

Mr Baris Tukel, was the sole director of Stealth Enterprises which owned the Gentleman's Club in Mitchell, a charmless industrial area in the north of Canberra. His brother, Fidel Tukel, well known in boxing circles, was the manager of the brothel.