The alleged “onshore” leader of the Alameddine crime family has been charged by police with conspiring to murder two gangland rivals.<\/p>\n
Ali Elmoubayed, 32, will front Burwood Local Court on Wednesday after police arrested him in Croydon Park on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Mr Elmoubayed has been charged with conspiracy to murder, soliciting another to murder, recruiting a child to carry out criminal activity, and a raft of drug and other offences.<\/p>\n
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Ali Elmoubayed, 32, arrested outside his Croydon Park home on Tuesday morning. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
Police will allege Mr Elmoubayed solicited the murder of Samimjan Azari, who defected from the Alameddines to a rival crime group.<\/p>\n
Mr Azari has survived three attempts on his life this year, including a shooting in May that killed Dawood Zakaria at Granville.<\/p>\n
Another incident in June saw him running for his life in an Auburn kebab shop as two gunmen stormed the restaurant and opened fire on him, his associates and a worker.<\/p>\n
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The moment two gunmen fired on Samimjan Azari and an associate on June 17 in an Auburn kebab shop. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
Police have said the Alameddines have been involved in a series of tit-for-tat shootings after an internal feud turned deadly this year.<\/p>\n
The departure of several of their once-loyal members has resulted in shootings targeting homes and firebombings across Sydney in recent months, police believe.<\/p>\n
The Alameddines have long been considered by police to be a key player in Sydney’s drug trade, running a complex organised crime network out of the city’s west.<\/p>\n
Their leader, Rafat Alameddine, fled to Lebanon in 2023 and is wanted on a warrant for conspiring to murder two other underworld figures.<\/p>\n
In June, Mr Elmoubayed himself avoided a hit man’s bullet by just four minutes after gunmen targeted his home shortly after he left to face court at Parramatta.<\/p>\n
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CCTV footage of a Porsche believed to be the getaway car used in the shooting on Ali Elmoubayed’s home. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
Mr Elmoubayed has also been charged over the alleged conspiracy to murder another underworld adversary at Kogarah Bay in August.<\/p>\n
As part of sweeping raids targeting Alameddine associates, a woman and two other men have also been charged and are expected to face court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The high-profile arrest is to date the biggest yet for NSW Police, which stood up Taskforce Falcon in May to suppress violence resulting from the Alameddines’ ongoing split.<\/p>\n
Its focus has been on the splintering crime clan, the group their defectors have joined, the KVT, and another network of alleged guns for hire dubbed “the Afghan crew”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged “onshore” leader of the Alameddine crime family has been charged by police with conspiring to murder…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[207485,4740,50,9309,134504],"class_list":{"0":"post-451962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ali-elmoubayed","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nsw-police","12":"tag-organised-crime"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115731888189968326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}