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Daily Mail
19 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Chilling new details emerge about how alleged Australian gangland hit carried out in Bali was 'meticulously planned'
New details about the alleged roles played by three men in an execution-style killing of an Australian in a Bali villa earlier this month have been put forward by police. Zivan 'Stipe' Radmanovic, 35, and Sanar Ghanim, 34, were shot just after midnight on June 14 at a villa in Munggu, in Bali's south, in an attack believed to be linked to Melbourne 's feuding Middle Eastern crime syndicates. Radmanovic was killed in the attack, while Ghanim was rushed to hospital before he was later discharged nursing a heavily bandaged leg. Australians Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 27, Darcy Francesco Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 22, were arrested and brought to Bali after a tense, five-day manhunt. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Bali Police Chief Inspector General Daniel Adityajaya alleged the crime was 'well organised'. 'They have planned the act quite long. One of the perpetrators arrived in Bali in April 2025, the other arrived June 2025,' he said. Police alleged all three of the suspects played key roles in the planning and execution of the alleged hit. Jenson allegedly booked the villa where the murders occurred and supplied tools, including a hammer, and transportation for his co-accused. Jenson also allegedly rented a white Toyota Fortuner and a Suzuki XL7 used during the operation and bought ferry tickets from Java to Bali. He was allegedly photographed while renting the vehicles and purchasing a hammer used to break into the villa. He is also accused of collecting the gunmen from Sidoarjo, East Java, and driving them to Jakarta after the murders to aid their escape abroad. Police allege Coskun and Tupou were the shooters in the attack. Tupou is accused of purchasing the firearm used in the shooting and disposing of a motorbike and other evidence. Coskun is alleged to have purchased jackets worn during the crime and helped Tupou dispose of evidence. Investigators are continuing to develop the investigation in order to gather strong evidence to determine further legal action, police said. Inside the villa, forensic teams recovered extensive ballistic evidence. They gathered two bullet fragments, six bullet casings, and 38 bullet shards in one room of the villa. They also recovered nine bullet casings and 16 bullet shards from another and found a further three bullet casings and one bullet shard in the yard. According to investigators, a hammer was used to break into the villa before the shooters opened fire in rooms one and three. Police said forensic tests allegedly showed gunshot residue on the suspects and on items recovered from a white Toyota Fortuner found nearby, including gloves and a balaclava. A black motorcycle believed to be linked to the crime was also seized, along with a related document. Police confirmed the recovery of one handgun, two magazines with bullets, and an empty magazine found in a river about 700 metres from the villa, in a rice field area in Tabanan. A black backpack with an 'Athlete' logo, 18 bullet casings, 27 live rounds, and a hammer with its purchase receipt were also found nearby. CCTV footage was gathered from multiple locations, including the Sinar Harapan hardware store, Villa Casa 1, and the hotel where Jenson was allegedly seen checking out after the shooting. Police claimed the men initially fled Bali using different vehicles and ferry routes before regrouping in East Java and travelling by bus to Jakarta. Jenson was arrested at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta with the help of airport police. Coskun and Tupou had already flown to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, but were later returned to Indonesia and taken into custody. The suspects face charges under Article 340 of Indonesia's criminal code for premeditated murder, as well as charges for illegal firearm possession under emergency laws. The maximum penalty for the charges is death. 'We are still working on finding the mastermind,' Chief Inspector General Adityajaya said. 'From our investigation, we found out that the crime [was] well organised.' Police said the victim's body has been flown back to Australia. The motive for the alleged hit is still under investigation.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The key item found at a luxury Bali villa that sparked the arrest of three Aussies now facing the death penalty over suspected gangland hit
Bali detectives have revealed it was a fluorescent orange sledgehammer that led them to arrest three Australians accused of a gangland hit on two Melbourne men. Zivan 'Stipe' Radmanovic, 35, and Sanar Ghanim, 34, were shot just after midnight on Saturday at a villa in Munggu, in Badung Regency in Bali's south, in an attack believed to be linked to Melbourne's feuding Middle Eastern crime syndicates. Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 37, Darcy Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, were arrested and brought back to Bali on Wednesday after an intense five-day police manhunt. Jenson was arrested at Jakarta Airport as he tried to get through an e-passport reader to board a flight to Singapore and then on to Cambodia. Tupou and Coskun managed to make it to Cambodia but were identified by Interpol who arrested them in Phnom Penh and flew them back to Indonesia. Authorities said the sledgehammer, believed to have been supplied by Coskun, was used to smash down the door of the villa moments before the alleged attack. Badung Police Chief Arif Batubara said the discarded hammer was discovered by officers at the entrance of the villa and quickly became a key piece of evidence. 'Starting from there, we launched an investigation into the barcode on the hammer's purchase,' he told reporters during a press conference on Saturday. 'We checked the barcode both on-site and at the store where it was bought. From there, we investigated the shop and its address. 'That's where it started, allowing us to trace the origin of the hammer.' It comes after Bali Police revealed on Wednesday how the gang allegedly fled across Indonesia after the shooting, escaping the scene on motorbikes before switching cars twice on an 18-hour, 1200km getaway to Jakarta. Detectives revealed the suspects were first traced through Tupou's distinctive tattoos which were first picked up on CCTV as he bought cigarettes near the villa where the attack unfolded. Tupou has a combination of traditional Tongan artwork inked onto his skin and the 676-international telephone dialling code for Tonga in huge numbers down his shin. The tattoos were clearly visible in pictures of Tupou as he was being pushed in a wheelchair through Jakarta Airport after he was deported back to Indonesia. Detectives are now working with forensic experts as they pore over evidence from the crime scene, including blood samples, the sledgehammer, bullet casings and projectiles, and face coverings. The crime squad is also looking at more CCTV footage, a vehicle and travel history, said a police spokesman. The three can be held without charge for months while police investigate the killing. Once they present their dossier of evidence, the three will be handed over to a prosecutor who will then send them to Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison. They will then face a court hearing to be formally charged, and kept at Kerobokan throughout their trial until a verdict and possible sentence. They are being investigated for premeditated murder which under Indonesian law can carry the death sentence. Radmanovic, who had 175 court appearances to his name, died in front of his wife in the villa toilet, while Ghanim was rushed to Kuta's BIMC Hospital with multiple injuries. He was discharged from hospital on Sunday in a wheelchair, nursing a bandaged leg, and police say he has so far refused to co-operate with local authorities. Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, the stepdaughter of notorious Australian drug trafficker Carl Williams, who was murdered in Victoria's Barwon jail in 2010. Radmanovic's wife Jazmyn Gourdeas, 29, was reportedly asleep at the villa when she awoke to the sound of her husband screaming at around 12.15am. From behind a blanket, the mother-of-six said she witnessed the man in the orange jacket and another man open fire on her husband while he was in the bathroom. Shortly afterwards, she heard further gunshots and Ghanim screaming from a separate room after he was gunned down in his bedroom. With her husband already dead, Ms Gourdeas tried to stem Ghanim's bleeding until emergency services arrived. A fourth person in the villa - believed to be a family member - managed to flee the property while gunshots rang out. Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene. Ghanim and Radmanovic's family are currently being kept on the island 'under close police watch', authorities said. Radmanovic and Ms Gourdeas are understood to have arrived last Thursday to celebrate her 30th birthday in Bali, where Ghanim and his partner had reportedly been living for years. Ghanim's long-standing association with Melbourne's criminal underworld goes deeper than just family ties. In 2014, he was jailed following the shooting of fellow associate Serkan Kala after a dispute at a gym escalated. He and a co-accused pleaded guilty.
