Victorian police warned Immigration ex-SA bikie Lenny Gjeka would present a major security risk Leonard Gjeka escaped on Wednesday from the medium-security Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre in Melbourne . POLICE feared the escape risk underworld figure Lenny Gjeka posed in immigration detention and wanted him held in a high-security facility, it has been revealed. Sources have revealed that Victorian police who detained the former SA bikie in Melbourne late last month were worried about his strong links to both outlaw motorcycle gangs and Albanian organised crime figures and had asked the Immigration Department to place him in high-security custody. Gjeka escaped from the medium-security Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre in Melbourne on Wednesday. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said the department was aware of his violent past and criminal history, but denied there was a police request for tighter security. "I am advised there were no issues raised with the individual's placement in Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre by the Victorian Police when the individual was placed there," Mr Morrison said. The individual was detained for the purposes of removal from Australia, not for any other purpose. The individual had no outstanding matters before the police. A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the force was "unable to respond"" when asked about the security request, because the escape of Gjeka and another man, Michael Dobson, was the subject of an ongoing investigation. Gjeka was being held in ­detention after his visa was revoked "on character grounds"" following an investigation by Immigration officials and Victoria Police. SA Police have confirmed they provided information on Gjeka's extensive criminal history. The Serious and Organised Crime Branch has put protective measures in place in SA in case Gjeka returns here. He still has ties to Adelaide's organised crime scene through his links with the former New Boys street gang and Commancheros bikie gang. He left Adelaide almost a year ago. It was also revealed yesterday that Gjeka boasted that "if you are a man," you take freedom - just three hours before staging his brazen early-morning breakout. "Nobody can give you freedom," Gjeka posted on Facebook prior to his escape. Nobody can give you equality or justice ... if you are a man you take it! Gjeka, 32, infamously survived two attempts on his life and was once charged over a shooting outside the San Giorgio pizza bar on Rundle St. Authorities fear Gjeka may be headed for SA, given his previous ties to Adelaide's organised crime scene. His girlfriend also gave a strong indication in a Facebook post on Sunday that he may have been planning to leave the detention centre. "Few more weeks till we reunite and next time not letting you go no where anymore. love you ... and can't wait till we start a new chapter in our life overs ease (sic) Super Excited!!,"" she wrote. Gjeka is estranged from his former partner, an Adelaide lawyer, with whom he has a young child. Originally published as Escaped ex-SA bikie was not kept in high security