We now have levels and groups that are providing opportunities for illicit wealth and assets to be hidden, Mr Grant says. The inter-connectedness of crime groups in pursuit of a dollar has also led to a crumbling of traditional, ethnic and geographic boundaries. Investigators are trying to work out whether a brawl between the Hamzy and Alameddine families might have led to the murder of Mejid Hamzy. We suspect he was lured there with a message he had received on his Blackberry because when we recovered his Blackberry it has been completely wiped, Sergeant Rudens says. After years of being out of reach, former king Cross identity Vaso Ulic was arrested in Montenegro. Police are hoping the new orders will put pressure on associates of the rival families to provide them with information that could crack the case. Some criminal organisations launder their money through casinos. Investigators have issued Public Safety Orders, banning 22 people mainly friends or members of the Alameddine and Hamzy families from moving across parts of Sydney. The younger brother of Brothers 4 Life leader Bassam Hamzy who is serving time in jail for murder was killed near his car at Condell Park last week. ': Chris Kamara's legendary moment after missing a red card, ITV's clanger in cutting MIKE KEEGAN: Temporary concussion substitutes will NOT be trialled in the Premier League, as Sportsmail Britain's FBI warns LA's drug mules to stay at home: Another two passengers are caught at Heathrow with Laura Kenny is pregnant! I am sure the community are sick of these crime groups using our streets and our homes as shooting ranges, Detective Superintendent Robert Critchlow said. In years gone by, it was often the same criminals importing, producing and supplying drugs, Mr Grant says. . Five of the Alameddines - Talal, Rafat, Jihad, Rachad and Hamdi - appeared in Sydney courts on various matters on the same day last month. As the two families' terrifying 18-month blood feud continued, Ibrahem Hamze, Tareek Hamzy and Haissam Hamzy were all arrested and charged this week over recent violent crimes. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to Keep calm and carry on! - Facing charges over a wild brawl at Parramatta Westfield. Crime Sydney Man charged after allegedly shooting drivers with nail gun on busy NSW motorway By Luke Costin / Crime Almost 10kg of drugs, weapons and $1.5 million in cash seized in Sydney raids By Finbar O'Mallon / NSW News Teen charged with stealing $21,000 worth of equipment from Sydney school Rhiannon Lewin / NSW News Individuals who break either of the orders could face five years in jail or a fine of more than $165,000. 9News, Qantas flight from Auckland to Sydney issues mayday call due to engine failure, engine failure of the body about the area where the heart sits. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. The Shark Arm Murders are perhaps the most famous of all Sydney crimes. These 10 suburbs with the highest crime rates were; 1. Then it was time for a much larger haul, $1.8 million worth. The execution of Wally Ahmad was captured on a shopping centres CCTV. There is evidence of one Sydney remitter sending $265 million overseas in eight years. During the operation, police allegedly seized 19 firearms, 672 rounds of ammunition and nearly $100,000 cash.
There is also information that points to them working hand-in-hand with cartels in Mexico who have almost exclusive access to cocaine supplies. They are also looking at a brawl in which his cousin, Mohammed Hamzy, was stabbed with a metal shiv by another inmate at John Morony Correctional Centre near Windsor. 'What we've seen since back in the day with these families is that they move out for a new life in Australia, and will do anything to avoid going back to where they're from. So much money is being generated by these networks that they can afford to have hundreds of kilograms of drugs seized at ports or mail centres because other consignments of the same size have already slipped through undetected. Zolfonoon, a married father-of-one who studied electrical engineering at university, facilitated the exchange of $1.8 million in cash bound with elastic bands. Photo: Lindsay Murdoch, Antonio Bagnato was sentenced to death in Thailand earlier this year for murdering Wayne Schneider. But Fairfax Media has been told that the vacuum created by Schneiders death has already been filled, again with overseas-based Australian criminals, this time with strong links to the Comancheros motorcycle gang. However, a few months later, Steven Elmir and Rock Ahmad were arrested in a major transnational drug sting targeting some of Sydney's most notorious players. Jay Wilson, a tradesman from Campbelltown, had agreed to supply the drug for a price of $225,000 per kilogram. "We can control what telephones they use, we can control who they bank with, we can stop their movements overseas.". The NSW Crime Commissions annual report has warned that organised crime is increasing and is at levels not seen previously in NSW. Many of those remain unsolved. As there has been more targeting of OMCGs (outlaw motorcycle gangs) and organised crime groups, Mr Lanyon says, certainly once they have been arrested a number of times it becomes very dangerous for them to conduct illegal activity in Australia so they have moved offshore to conduct that activity.. It is not known which particular gangs were involved in the bungled kidnapping. abc730, Qantas flight from Auckland to Sydney issues mayday alert, It's believed more than 100 people are on flight QF144 from Auckland to Sydney. Relief for homebuyers as bill slashing Stamp Duty until 2025 is passed by the Lords and will become law. "It will prevent them from associating with other criminals, it will prevent them from utilising weapons of crime, it will prevent them from having encrypted communications," Detective Superintendent Critchlow said. Bilal and his associate had met with the officer on three occasions to exchange guns and drugs for cash in the month before their arrest. A second son, Trent Trotter, a former South Sydney Rabbitoh footballer, also pleaded guilty to a heroin supply charge. As related by Alex Castles in his fascinating book Keep Reading There was a collective sigh of relief as a Qantas passenger jet touched down safely at Sydney Airport.The pilot had issued a mayday call after losing power i Petty: ribbons for abuse victims removed from Sydney church hosting George Pell funeral. Strike Force Raptor have since stepped up their operation targeting criminal networks, issuing public safety orders to 22 men linked to the Hamzy and Alameddine families in a desperate bid to prevent more retaliatory attacks. Formed in 2006, MEOCS is the only police squad in Australia that specialises in organised crime by Middle Eastern originated groups. The mafia came to Australia with the Italian cane cutters who arrived in Queensland in the 1920s, and grew as the Italian population swelled with post-war migration. Since the brutal, fatal brawl between the Hells Angels and Comancheros at Sydney Airport in 2012, police have cracked down on bikie violence. Crime Families in Sidney: The Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda Family Conflict Three Australian-Lebanese crime families in Sydney - the Darwiches, Razzaks, and Fahdas - were involved in a series of killings and other violent acts from 2001 to 2009. He wasnt part of a crime family dynasty. Phones with this software and a US SIM card can be bought in Sydney for between $2300 and $2800 with a six-month subscription. Now there might be one group overseas sourcing drugs, another focused on concealment and another acting as the broker. The ability to raise vast amounts of cash enables organised crime groups to source weapons and hire people prepared to undertake murder for profit. Photo: Erin Jonasson, Subscribe today for unlimited access from only 50c a day. More money means more violence but Sydneys organised criminals never let murder get in the way of business. Criminals were less likely to deal with groups under intense scrutiny. AcceptRead More, Record-breaking temperatures are already causing chaos across the country today, with trains grinding to a halt and, Plus de dtailsSaint-Julien Beychevelle. Influence in this crime syndicate rested in the intermediaries, the mid-level people with extensive contacts who brought major players together. They have created a degree of professionalism in the criminal environment, advising criminals on how to get their wealth offshore or assets out of reach from authorities. Hells Angels bikie gang figure Wayne Schneider earned a reputation for violence and gangland activity in Australia before he moved to Thailand in 2011. 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Safwan Charbaji, an associate of the Elmir family, was shot in that Saturday afternoon shootout at A Team Body Works. For about a decade the suburb also became the citys murder centre as very young, first-generation immigrant gangsters went to war. Whether a truce was reached that day is unclear. 30/01/2022 4:00:00 PM The day before he disappeared, drug dealer and new . Sydney crime family the Trotters who had a mother, father, uncle a and two sons peddling drugs are sentenced Both Mrs Trotter and James have pleaded guilty to supplying heroin between December 2013 and February 2014. 4. Murders are symptomatic of heightened organised crime activity, the NSW Crime Commissions annual report states. 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In one of the largest NSW police investigations in recent times, eight of these loosely linked murders were brought together under Strike Force Osprey in 2016. Investigators have issued Public Safety Orders, banning 22 people mainly friends or members of the Alameddine and Hamzy families from moving across parts of Sydney. Underworld sources say his Hells Angels superiors in the US ordered him to set up in south-east Asia to cash in on drug importations into Australia. The family name first came onto the radar of police in the mid-1990s, when Khaled was jailed for his role in a drug ring. Khaled and Lola Hamzy moved their family to Australia in the 1970s as civil war erupted in Lebanon. Five of the Alameddines - Talal, Rafat, Jihad, Rachad and Hamdi - appeared in Sydney courts on various matters on the same day last month. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commissions Richard Grant says there has been greater investment in bolstering the presence of Australian law enforcement overseas to gather information about offshore targets such as those arrested in Dubai in August. Retired NSW detective turned Western Sydney University lecturer Michael Kennedy has seen generations of families involved in Sydney organised crime. The source claimed a number of footsoldiers in the bikie gang were refusing to take on jobs until the mess is cleared up. Undercover officers spent three months assuming the lives of two mid-level drug buyers. Was it all for the cameras? One of the biggest challenges that I am seeing at the moment is that the drugs are coming from far greater avenues than what there were, State Crime Commands new Assistant Commissioner, Mal Lanyon, says. And in mid-November, a yacht carrying 700kg of cocaine, believed to have come from South America and then Tahiti, was discovered at Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney. Sydney Crime Museum is an online history of crime in Sydney, which has often affected the lives of ordinary people and popular culture as well as corrupting the processes of policing, justice and government. Police had repeatedly told members of these families the violence couldn't be good for their businesses. The 2.8 tonnes seizure in December 2014 cost the criminal syndicate $22 million a cost shared between a number of crime groups in a joint venture. With the drugs estimated street value $1.5 billion, the bust amounted to the second-largest in the nations history. , updated Photo: Daniel Munoz. Michael Ibrahim as well as Mustapha "Fairy . The recent outbreak in violence has been linked to a feud between two crime families, the Elmirs and the Ahmads, who control drug turf in Sydneys south-west. Runners often use hire cars to avoid detection and carry not more than 20 drug deals at a time in case they are stopped by police. However, many others could have been selected, as the gangs have an extensive history of crime and no particular hierarchy. Police have identified DLASTHR, which is an abrieviation of 'the Last hour', as a dangerous gang that controlsdrug territory in Sydney's Fairfield area. Police suspected that the large quantity of cash was part of a payment for a drug importation that had been sent to Sydney. Join the conversation with your fellow The New Daily readers and see their replies. Hours later, officers chased and stopped an allegedly stolen vehicle from Pendle Hill, arresting a 35-year-old over a spate of alleged jewelry store heists. The Hamzy family and some of their associates are banned from going to parts of Western Sydney, including Mount Druitt, Doonside, Rooty Hill, Parramatta, Westmead and Merrylands. 'You will often see that organised crime groups keep things in the family, because it brings a level of trust and unity, but also they don't want to share what they have. NSW Police fears revenge attacks after the murder of Mejid Hamzy. Police swooped on Bilal and another man in the carpark of the Bunnings Warehouse at Lidcombe on June 30, 2017, after an undercover police officer bought three guns and $115,000 worth of cocaine from the pair. The bikie boss who ordered the kidnapping is now dealing with the fall out, after it appears the rival gang was not behind the missing 400kg of cocaine, reports The Daily Telegraph. Leading the way among the Alameddine family is Rafat, the older brother of Talal. Police swoop on Sydney crime families in mass raids. What we have found is a lot of senior members of outlaw motorcycle gangs who have traditionally been what I would consider the more violent or dangerous ones are now the ones offshore, Mr Lanyon said. Key points: Police have banned several friends and relatives of the Alameddine and Hamzy families from moving around Sydney Fadi Ibrahim (right) at Sydney's Central Local Court in November for a hearing over his alleged role in an international drug-smuggling conspiracy. Get The New Daily free every morning and evening. One reason is that energetic and ambitious men who have difficulty obtaining legitimate opportunities turn to illegal ones. Whether that be drug supply, firearms supply or ownership of a particular criminal group. Haymarket: 116.76 per 100 people. Law enforcement agencies have attributed globalisation and the success of police actions in Australia as the driving forces behind the trend in influential criminals moving overseas. Investigators have also noticed that crime syndicates have been adopting new ways to import drugs rather than just concealing substances in shipping containers. He was either going to launder it for them or he owed them money for drugs Or he would gamble it and he would probably win some but he would also lose as well.. Tensions are at breaking point across the southwest of the city, the source claimed, with the bikie gang still empty-handed over the cocaine. These people pose Australias biggest organised crime threat and they are behind the unprecedented amount of drugs breaching the countrys borders. 'But what you've got to do is get these communities to trust you. Fairfax Media has been made aware of a number of known businesses, particularly in the building and hospitality industries, that have also been established as a way for criminals to launder money. They built a rapport with an influential source a martial arts expert who emerged as a middleman between several drug syndicates. Some of Australias better-known criminals have shown up in countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Lebanon and Turkey. NSW Police have declared war on two rival crime families after a spate of shootings, including the murder of Mejid Hamzy, in Sydney's south-west. Mejid Hamzy (pictured above) was murdered in October in what police believe was a targeted shooting as tensions rise in Sydney's underworld, The bikie boss who ordered the kidnapping is now dealing with fallout after it appears the rival gang was not behind the missing 400kg of cocaine (stock image). 3. For Strike Force Taipan, I'm about to have a meeting with Kamra Zolfonoon to conduct a purchase in the Kingsgrove area.. 'There was a group of about 30 of them and when I walked out I did the exact the same thing to another woman after he sister asked me to wish her a happy birthday.'. The presence of Mexican cartels operating in Australia was first noticed in 2008 and their influence has steadily grown since. "I am sure the community are sick of these crime groups using our streets and our homes as shooting ranges," Detective Superintendent Robert Critchlow said. Last year he narrowly avoided jail for his role in a luxury car fraud syndicate and was instead handed a 15-month suspended sentence. Auto news:Uber of the future revealed - drive.com.au, Your web browser is no longer supported. Tonight on 7.30: Sydney man campaigning to save cousin, Majid Kazemi, from death row after Iran protests. Why does the tap water in these country towns taste so bad. Their weapon of choice is the Blackberry, and it's helping Sydney's drug distributors make so much profit they're not bothered by losing the odd shipment - or drug runner. Zolfonoon was not a kingpin, he didn't drive a flashy car and nor did he have millions of dollars. He was an influential player on the high-rolling money laundering scene. Rachad Alameddine, a close cousin, is the final family member charged over the June 15 Westfield brawl. In return he was handed $28,000 by the undercover officer. While Talal will be off the streets for at least the next decade, his five relatives have continued to develop into a prominent crime entourage in western Sydney. He came from a farming family in Vietnam but gravitated towards gambling at an early age. SCPOs are rare, but Strike Force Raptor detectives did use them amid escalating tensions between the Finks and Rebels bikie gangs in Newcastle several years ago. Michael Ibrahim as well as Mustapha Fairy Dib and Steven Elmir have been charged over the alleged plan to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and MDMA. Subscribe for free to get the latest breaking news and analysis sent to your inbox. The massive haul was placed in clear plastic bags and paraded for television cameras and newspaper photographers. Murders are symptomatic of heightened organised crime activity, the NSW Crime Commission says in its latest annual report. Daily Mail Australia contacted criminal lawyer Abdul Saddik, who represents several of the Alameddines, for comment but he refused as a number of matters remain before the courts. 23:25 GMT 06 Nov 2019 Organised crime in Australia refers to the activities of various groups of crime families, organised crime syndicates or underworld activities including drug trafficking, contract killing, racketeering and other crimes in Australia . But Fairfax Media can reveal that law enforcement sources believe that at least three drug shipments of the same size slipped through the borders before that sting resulting in close to nine tonnes of illicit drugs on the streets. Will be sentenced on December 18. Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. 'There's no great mystery that families who come here with nothing will do the hard yards and whatever it takes to get money, and many end up in organised crime.'. The orders were enforced at the weekend amid police fears of revenge attacks. The heavily encrypted device, which can be wiped remotely, has become a common feature in organised crime murders. Emergency services are scrambling to meet a Qantas plane that issued a mayday distress call on its way from New Zealand to Sydney Airport. A woman who had an affair with Ben Roberts-Smith has told a Sydney Court the war veteran punched her in the face in a Canberra Hotel Room. The younger brother of Brothers 4 Life leader Bassam Hamzy who is serving time in jail for murder was killed near his car at Condell Park last week. 'My beard is for ISIS,' he told a police constable when asked about his facial hair. The Alameddine crime family has been targeted by NSW Police in a series of raids, with authorities saying they have cut the "head off the snake."Subscribe to. His attackers roared off down the street. The brother in a major Middle Eastern crime gang was snatched from southwest Sydney on Friday night and released 24 hours later after tense discussions between the groups. Sydney's western suburbs have long played home to dangerous criminal groups Among them were brothers Mejid and Bassam Hamzy, who is currently in prison Mejid was shot dead in the driveway of his. Photo: AAP, A commemorative stone for Wayne Schneider at a Hells Angels compound in Pattaya. Talal Alameddine is an ISIS sympathiser who showed no remorse and refused to stand when sentenced in the New South Wales Supreme Court to a minimum of 13-and-a-half years in jail. To improve your experience, Man drowns attempting to rescue daughter off NSW beach. The Hamzy family and some of their associates are banned from going to some suburbs between Sydney Olympic Park stretching south to Picnic Point, as well as Clovelly and Bronte in the citys east, and Sans Souci, Dolls Point and Sandringham in the citys south. The massive amounts of cash being moved by criminals led to the establishment of a money laundering investigative team made up of the NSW Organised Crime Squad and the NSW Crime Commission in 2014. He is due before Parramatta Local Court on December 18 for sentencing. Sydney, capital of New South Wales and one of Australia's largest cities, is best known for its harbourfront Sydney Opera House, with a d In 1999, his son Bassam shot dead a teenager during a night out in Sydney and was himself jailed for 21 years. Police swoop on Sydney crime families in mass raids, 115 people charged By 9News Staff 9:49pm Jan 30, 2022 Sydney's decade-long gang war is believed to have been smashed by police in just 48 hours, with 115 people charged during a two-day operation targeting alleged members, associates and supporters of organised criminal networks. Crime is an essential part of the city's history. Details from his court case revealed he held about $75 million worth of chips at the casino over the prior decade and possibly gambled up to $1 billion. A stolen shipment of nearly half a tonne of cocaine could set off a powder keg in Sydney's simmering underworld after bikies kidnapped a rival crime family member. Photo: Daniel Munoz. 'If you use the word "mafia" it gives the wrong idea, but it's essentially the same thing in that you have a close knit system,' Professor Kennedy said. The root of the problem is the unrelenting tide of drug importations, the overseas criminals driving the tonne-heavy consignments and the technology aiding their exports. 'Organised crime is not going anywhere, you can't regulate it, and so you need them to self-regulate. This excess cash can have deadly consequences. Police believe the offender kicked and damaged all 43 cars between 3.30am and 4am and on December 15. 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