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Sky News AU
2 days ago
- Sky News AU
Police strike back in Sydney gangland war as five charged following daylight shooting at home of alleged local Alameddine crime boss
NSW Police has charged five men following a brazen daylight shooting at the home of an alleged local Alameddine crime boss, days after a car outside his house was firebombed. According to a police statement, officers were called to Earl Street in Marylands around 9.20am following reports of a shooting. No one was home at the time and there were no reports of injuries. Gangland war on the streets of Sydney has seen another dramatic shooting as police charge five men following the brazen daylight attack. Picture: NSW Police According to The Daily Telegraph, police have speculated Ali Elmoubayed has been overseeing the Alameddine crime gang's million-dollar drug enterprise in recent years after Rafat Alemeddine fled overseas. Thursday's shooting took place at his home. As bullets were being fired into his home, the Telegraph reported Mr Elmoubayed was on his way to Parramatta Local Court to ask for his bail to be varied. He faces some 40 charges including supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, dealing with the proceeds of crime, kidnapping, and knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group. He is yet to enter pleas. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 12, 2025: Ali Elmoubayed at Parramatta Court on Thursday. Elmoubayed is set to ask a magistrate to relocate him from his home after it was shot at on Thursday morning. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short Superintendent Jason Box said gang crime has not escalated, based on the figures, but there is a 'concern that it is happening'. A short time after Mr Elmoubayed home was shot up, a burnt-out Porsche was found on Beverly Crescent, Chester Hill. Upon leaving Chester Hill, the group travelled in a Hyundai and were tracked by a police helicopter before being arrested about 20 minutes later. The men were arrested while fleeing on foot along McMahon Road in Yagoona. Three men aged in their early twenties, were taken to Granville Police Station and charged with conspire to discharge firearm and other offences, including participate in a criminal group. One of the men, 22, was also charged with acquire etc pistol-subject to firearms prohibition order. The trio were refused bail to appear in court on Friday. Around the same time, a Ford Territory was seen driving erratically before crashing on Prospect Road in Greystanes. The occupants of the vehicle, two 17-year-olds, were detained by community members before police arrived. They were subsequently placed under arrest. During a search of the vehicle, jerry cans containing fuel, bleach, balaclavas, and a knife were seized by police. The teens were charged under Taskforce Falcon with take and drive conveyance without consent of owner, accessory before the fact to damage property by fire, custody of a knife in public place and participate in a criminal group. One of the males was also wanted for allegedly being involved in a home invasion in Ermington in February and received additional charges, including commit serious indictable offence-inflict actual bodily harm and accessory before and after the fact to an aggravated break and enter. The two teens were both refused bail to appear in a Children's Court today. One of the men who made a citizen's arrest told the Telegraph the teen he managed to apprehend begged to be let go. 'I was stuck in traffic and I looked to my right… and I saw two guys running away from the car that was smoking up,' the man said, adding how he jumped out of his car and chased them. 'He was begging, begging me, 'please, please my mum is sick, they're going to kill me if they find out.''
Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘You should play lotto': Alleged gangland boss' lucky escape from brazen shooting
At Parramatta, Elmoubayed, a former bodyguard to Rafat Alameddine, was unaware of the shooting until he and his lawyer, Jaad Krayem, were stopped by a highway patrol car while crossing the street after the trio was arrested. Alameddine, the alleged kingpin of the crime family, has been living in Lebanon as a free man since fleeing Australia in November 2022. Since then, Elmoubayed has allegedly risen to the top of the network's local operation. Police allege Alameddine and John Bayssari were part of the criminal conspiracy to murder their gangland enemy Ibrahem Hamze in August 2021. Elmoubayed, who was accompanied at court by an associate, declined to comment on the shooting when approached by the Herald. Several other associates arrived and flanked Elmoubayed soon after he was informed of the shooting. In April, Elmoubayed was granted strict bail in the NSW Supreme Court on dozens of charges, including supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, dealing with the proceeds of crime, kidnapping, and knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group. On Thursday afternoon, Magistrate Cate Follent granted Elmoubayed's application to move to high-rise apartment building in Sydney, despite prosecutors arguing police intelligence suggested a number of 'high-ranking organised crime members' lived in the same building and in the area. 'There is intelligence of other criminally concerned persons there,' prosecutor Anneka Narayan told the court. Narayan told the court Elmoubayed would be able to mix with other organised crime figures within the building without being monitored in the way he could at his current address. But Elmoubayed's barrister, Peter Kondich, told the court that the extra security features of the building would offer greater protection to Elmoubayed, his pregnant wife and three young children who had been living at the Merrylands home. 'It's for those safety reasons that he's seeking refuge in such a building in such a location,' Kondich said. 'Those security features can only be the benefit of Mr Elmoubayed and his family members.' Kondich said there had been a 'number of threats on the applicant's life, including this morning'. 'Sadly those exact threats have materialised into very, very serious events which have transpired,' Kondich said. The attack on Elmoubayed's home is the latest gangland shooting under the microscope of Taskforce Falcon. It was established last month after several underworld-linked murders, including the killing of Alameddine associate Dawood Zakaria, 32, during the attempted assassination of Samimjan Azari in Granville on May 25. Police allege Azari, 26, is one of the criminal network's most senior members not serving a lengthy prison term or to have fled overseas. Taskforce commander Jason Box said police were concerned by ongoing 'internal divisions' among organised crime networks as shootings continued, but insisted the violence linked to the conflicts hadn't escalated. 'It is concerning that it's happening in the public domain,' he said. 'There's been person shot in public streets, there's incidents such as this, and that's why Taskforce Falcon has been established – to suppress this and hopefully arrest all those persons involved. It's something that we will not tolerate.' The recent spate of shootings has sparked fears of further attacks in the underworld. Elmoubayed is one of several figures taking measures to make themselves less predictable after the attempted assassination of Azari, who police believe was followed after reporting to a police station minutes earlier. Alameddine associate Ali Younes, widely known as the rapper Ay Huncho, last week varied his bail conditions, which now allow him to report to police via telephone rather than in person. Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Elmoubayed watched on as Emad Sleiman, who the court heard was one of his and Azari's associates at 'the top of the food chain', was granted bail. The decision came despite prosecutors warning he was at significant risk of fleeing the country. Sleiman was one of several alleged Alameddine members and associates charged in March under Strike Force Sheringham, an operation investigating the crime clan's alleged involvement in the illicit tobacco trade. Loading Sleiman was charged with knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group, taking or detaining a person, and aggravated break and enter for his alleged role in the attempted robbery of tens of thousands of dollars worth of illicit tobacco from a Condell Park storage unit. Police allege during the attempted robbery, three men were held hostage, and had their arms and legs bound. One of the men's toes was partially severed. Police prosecutor Brian Lowe told the court Sleiman was at risk of fleeing the country, as other Alameddine members had done. 'This is an organised crime network … where people have fled the shores of Australia,' the court heard. 'We say that with the recent events of this OCN (organised crime network) … he would seek to flee.' Sleiman's lawyer, Philip Strickland, SC, said police and prosecutors had not provided any evidence of his client's alleged links to the Alameddine crime clan, adding that Sleiman would continue to defend the charges. Elmoubayed smiled and hugged associates in the courtroom when Magistrate Michael Blair granted Sleiman bail.
The Age
3 days ago
- The Age
Alleged gangland supremo escaped brazen shooting by minutes
The Sydney home of the man police allege is the head of the notorious Alameddine crime network in Australia was peppered with bullets minutes after he left to ask a magistrate to allow him to relocate. Ali Elmoubayed was en route to Parramatta Local Court around 9.15am on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on his Merrylands home in the city's west. Shortly after, a burnt-out Porsche, suspected to be linked to the shooting, was found on Beverley Crescent in Chester Hill. No one was at the Earl Street home, which Elmoubayed had left five minutes earlier, at the time of the shooting. Shortly after, police arrested three men, who had allegedly fled the Chester Hill crime scene in a Hyundai. They were arrested on McMahon Road in Yagoona after allegedly trying to flee police on foot. They have not been charged. Crime scenes have been established in Merrylands and Chester Hill. Taskforce Falcon, established last month after a number of underworld-linked killings, is investigating the shooting. Elmoubayed, a former bodyguard to Rafat Alameddine, was set to appear in court to seek a variation to his bail that would allow him to relocate from the Earl Street home because of concerns for his safety. Other incidents at Elmoubayed's home in recent weeks, including a firebombing, have sparked security concerns. Alameddine, the alleged kingpin of the crime family, has been living in Lebanon as a free man since fleeing Australia in November 2022. Police believe Alameddine and John Bayssari were part of the criminal conspiracy to murder their gangland enemy Ibrahem Hamze in August 2021.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Alleged gangland supremo escaped brazen shooting by minutes
The Sydney home of the man police allege is the head of the notorious Alameddine crime network in Australia was peppered with bullets minutes after he left to ask a magistrate to allow him to relocate. Ali Elmoubayed was en route to Parramatta Local Court around 9.15am on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on his Merrylands home in the city's west. Shortly after, a burnt-out Porsche, suspected to be linked to the shooting, was found on Beverley Crescent in Chester Hill. No one was at the Earl Street home, which Elmoubayed had left five minutes earlier, at the time of the shooting. Shortly after, police arrested three men, who had allegedly fled the Chester Hill crime scene in a Hyundai. They were arrested on McMahon Road in Yagoona after allegedly trying to flee police on foot. They have not been charged. Crime scenes have been established in Merrylands and Chester Hill. Taskforce Falcon, established last month after a number of underworld-linked killings, is investigating the shooting. Elmoubayed, a former bodyguard to Rafat Alameddine, was set to appear in court to seek a variation to his bail that would allow him to relocate from the Earl Street home because of concerns for his safety. Other incidents at Elmoubayed's home in recent weeks, including a firebombing, have sparked security concerns. Alameddine, the alleged kingpin of the crime family, has been living in Lebanon as a free man since fleeing Australia in November 2022. Police believe Alameddine and John Bayssari were part of the criminal conspiracy to murder their gangland enemy Ibrahem Hamze in August 2021.
