Alleged senior Sydney crime figure Mohamad Alameddine arrested at luxury CBD apartment

A man who police allege is one of Sydney’s most senior crime figures has been arrested at a multimillion-dollar city apartment after police found bundles of cash stashed inside a fire extinguisher cupboard. See video of the arrest below.

A man who police allege is one of Sydney’s most senior crime figures has been arrested at a multimillion-dollar city apartment after police found bundles of cash stashed inside a fire extinguisher cupboard.

Mohamad Alameddine, who recently left his former home in southwest Sydney fearing for his life, was visited by police inside a three-bedroom penthouse in the CBD on April 9.

Police searched the 40-year-old’s premises during the execution of a firearm prohibition compliance check but found nothing illegal inside the property.

But in nearby fire extinguisher cupboards which were in the unit complex, officers found $13,000 cash in one and a mobile phone in another which were taken away for forensic testing.

After DNA results came back, police alleged they linked them to Alameddine and returned to the address on Tuesday at 7.30am, arresting him for breaching a serious crime prevention order, known as a SCPO.

Criminal Groups Squad detectives made the arrest on Tuesday. Picture: NSW Police

He was taken to Day Street Police Station and charged with two counts of contravene serious crime prevention order and failing to comply with digital evidence access order direction in relation to the mobile phone.

Since the murder of Comanchero crime boss Alen Moradian at Bondi Junction last June, police have been aware of tensions between major crime groups in the Sydney underworld.

Alameddine has not been charged in relation to Moradian’s death.

Mohamad Alameddine was arrested on Tuesday. Picture: NSW Police

The arrest of Alameddine, a Comanchero associate, is part of a high visibility operation targeting known members of the underworld using the execution of firearm prohibition compliance orders, or FPOs.

“These operations are to let those in this milieu know we are watching them,” said a senior officer.

$13,000 cash and a mobile phone were seized. Picture: NSW Police

“Some of these people are also potential targets for execution so having us swarm around where they are living lets their enemies know if they try anything there is a risk we are not far away,” he said.

On April 4, police carried out a highly public FPO compliance check on the rented premises of Omar Haouchar, who was renting a waterfront home in Drummoyne. The following week, he was evicted.

Haouchar has also not been charged in relation to Moradian’s death.

 Alameddine, known as Almo, is subjected to some of Strictest Serious crime prevention orders, which restrict his movements in parts of the city and mean he has to inform police where he lives, what mobile phone he uses and which car he drives.

The orders were first used to try and suppress the movement of figures involved in the Alameddine-Hamze war which raged for two years from 2020.

Mohamad Alameddine, who shares the same name but is not related to the crime family, is expected to appear in the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday.

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