Mejid Hamzy’s plot to kill drug boss Bilal Haouchar revealed on An0m messages
An0m messages reveal gangster Mejid Hamzy hired assassins to kill rival crime bosses – and demanded his family name be carved into their chest.
Gangster Mejid Hamzy hired a team of assassins to kill two fellow Mr Bigs of the Sydney drug trade and demanded the word “Hamzy” be carved into one’s chest.
Before he was gunned down – a murder that kicked off Sydney’s gang war – Hamzy was deep in negotiations to kill billionaire Western Sydney drug boss Bilal Haouchar and another globetrotting Australian crime kingpin who cannot legally be named.
The brother of crime boss Bassam Hamzy was prepared to pay $100,000 to kill or severely injure each man, and demanded video evidence be sent to him once the job had been completed.
Using an encrypted phone, Mejid Hamzy wrote messages to an overseas-based man in an attempt to track down each of the targets, who he believed were in Lebanon.
“I want that Bill (Haouchar) to get hurt very badly …,” Mejid wrote to the man known only as “JID”.
In a later message, JID replied: “I’ve got the boys ready to go, everyone is ready to rip this mother f..ker apart. I’ve got everything.”
“I can even carve your family name on his chest,” JID wrote. “I’ve already got the boys set up and ready to go.”
In later messages, Mejid demanded the attack on Haouchar be recorded and wrote: “I want the video of the scum …” and “Don’t forget the videos because I really want to see it done.”
JID replied: “I am waiting for the opportunity … You are going to love the video … I am going to carve Bass Hamzy on this motherf … ker, and I am going to make sure he never walks again in his life. This is personal for me.”
The message exchanges unfolded between July 23, 2019, and November 23, 2019.
Mejid Hamzy thought they were safe from police surveillance because they were being sent on an AN0M phone network, which was thought to be encrypted and beyond the reach of police surveillance.
But the phones were later revealed to be part of a worldwide sting on organised crime figures, with police secretly monitoring the millions of messages sent on the devices.
Police believe Mejid’s plot cost him his life. The 44-year-old was shot dead outside his Condell Park home by two hired assassins in the early hours of October 19, 2020.
They fired 14 shots at Mejid and four of them hit him.
Mejid ran 200m along Simmatt Ave and onto Curtin Pl, where he collapsed and died.
Bryce Williams and Christopher O’Brien were charged with murder but as The Daily Telegraph revealed this week, they were found not guilty by juries following lengthy trials in the NSW Supreme Court.
During the trial, prosecuting lawyers alleged Mejid was at war with a globetrotting Australian crime kingpin who had accused him of stealing a 400kg drug shipment worth $39 million.
The kingpin is closely tied to Haouchar, who is the figurehead of one of Sydney’s most feared crime families.
Haouchar fled Australia for Lebanon in 2018 and amassed an estimated $1 billion fortune after establishing himself as a high-level drug smuggler while seizing control of the Sydney drug trade.
They were both at war with the Hamzy family over drugs.
According to the messages, Mejid was trying to land the first blow.
On July 28, 2019, JID wrote in an AN0M message: “Cuz for (Haouchar), all is getting organise. We are just waiting on where he will be and we will look after him. Don’t worry.”
Mejid replied: “ … Pls I want that f..ken Bill (Haouchar) to get hurt very badly.”
On August 3, 2019, JID wrote that he had a corrupt cop in Lebanon helping to locate Haouchar.
“My detective mate said he can bring him in, rip him a new arsehole, bash the living shit out of him, find out exactly where he is living (and) put him on a parole system so he knows where he is at…,” JID wrote.
“I’ve got the boys ready to go. Everyone is ready to rip this mother f. ker apart. I’ve got everything,” he wrote.
“And it’s up to you what you want to do … I can even carve your family name on his chest.”
Mejid insisted the job be done quickly: “Don’t waste time please … Let me know and I want video of the scum,” he wrote.
Days later, JID complained Haouchar was hard to find as he was “always moving around so much”.
“The guy goes from hotel to hotel … I’ve (had) two weeks of surveillance on him…,” JID wrote.
“ … You’re going to love the video … I am going to carve Bass Hamzy on this mother f..ker and I’m going to make sure he never walks again …”
By September 5, 2019, Mejid had also added the international crime boss to the list of people to kill and put a $100,000 contract on his head.
“A fatwa has been passed on him from all the sheiks,” Mejid wrote.
Two days later, Mejid was getting impatient and requested an update.
“This Bill is really getting under my skin,” he wrote. “I want to see his f..ken chest carved up and I want him in a wheelchair.”
On September 9, Mejid wrote that he was planning to attack one of Haouchar’s Sydney-based brothers.
“I need to make a move on his brother here ASAP but don’t want to do it before Bill gets it. Then his rat brother here will disappear again.”
When Haouchar was still missing on November 7, JID wrote that he had “two men” outside his Lebanon home for the past two weeks.
In May, The Sunday Telegraph revealed Bassam Hamzy launched a multimillion legal case against the state claiming police were aware of the plot to murder Mejid, but did nothing to stop it.
On paper, Mejid was the owner of a chocolate cafe.
Behind the scenes he was a lieutenant in Bassam’s drug empire and was a suspect in the 2016 murder of hit man Hamad Assaad.
Originally published as Mejid Hamzy’s plot to kill drug boss Bilal Haouchar revealed on An0m messages
