Bones believed to be those of Minh Nguyen found
POLICE have located bones believed to be the remains of missing Bakers Delight franchise owner Minh Phuoc (Paul) Nguyen who vanished from the Hilton Hotel in Sydney’s CBD in 2014.
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POLICE have located bones believed to be the remains of a missing Bakers Delight franchise owner who vanished from the Hilton Hotel in Sydney’s CBD in May 2014.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that a man involved in the death of Minh Phuoc “Paul” Nguyen - gave police information they needed to locate the bones in a small area of bushland at Cordeaux in the state’s Illawarra.
The man awaiting sentence for Mr Nguyen’s death - Zulfukar Aljubouri - remains in custody as police continue to scour the area he has pinpointed.
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Today detectives and public order and riot squad officers continue to search the area of bushland off Mt Keira Rd.
It is understood this area of bushland has previously been searched by police who are investigating the suspected murder of Illawarra underworld figure Goran Nikolovski.
Police investigating Mr Nguyen’s death first searched the area two weeks ago but located a number of bones yesterday about 8am.
The bones are believed to be human but will be examined by a forensic pathologist anthropologist and will undergo DNA testing, to determine the formal identity of the remains.
In 2015 homicide detectives charged Aljubouri with the murder of Paul Nguyen after finding his blood on carpet of a Bankstown unit and his rental car agreement dumped in a bin at a Casula hotel.
The murder charge has since been dismissed and Aljubouri pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and unlawful disposal of a corpse.
Late on May 1, 2014 Mr Nguyen took some distressing phone calls and told family he needed to sort out a business “complication”.
Police say this “complication” somehow involved Zulfukar Aljubouri - most probably over drugs.
Court documents reveal Aljubouri was involved in the death of Mr Nguyen inside a unit on Dudley St, Bankstown, some time between May 1 and May 3 in 2014.
It was previously been reported that police believe the Vietnamese businessman may have been associating with the same criminal underworld figures who have been linked to slain drug dealer Jamie Gao and a high roller Peter Hoang, who was shot outside McDonald’s in Sydney’s inner west.
Police were able to gather crucial evidence which led to an arrest after a group of cannabis-smoking hotel guests unwittingly gave police a few extra clues.
The group set off the fire alarms at the Fountainbleau Motel in Casula on the Hume Highway after smoking heavily inside about three days after Mr Nguyen’s disappearance.
As a result police later located a rental car agreement belonging to Mr Nguyen, an empty mobile phone box and the stub of a boarding pass in a bin within the hotel room.
Police also discovered business cards belonging to Mr Nguyen’s friends and associates.
Mr Nguyen’s brother, Tony Nguyen, has previously spoken about his strange behavior in the lead up to his disappearance and how he had told his sister-in-law that he had to meet with someone which might be “complicated”.
Tony Nguyen has said his brother was a loving father and successful businessman who had owned two Bakers Delight stores at Carlingford; a Bread Top shop at Chatswood and a Parramatta pizzeria before his death.
Today a judge will sentence Robert Nikolovski for his role in the revenge killing of Darko Janceski.
It was the Crown case that Nikolovski murdered Janceski - a former Comanchero bikie - believing he had killed his brother Goran Nikolovski.
Goran’s body has never been found but police have searched the same area of Illawarra bushland where they yesterday located the bones believed to belong to Mr Nguyen.