John Ibrahim served firearm order at home
RADIO shock jock Kyle Sandilands turned up at the Dover Heights home of good friend John Ibrahim as police served the Kings Cross identity with a firearm prohibition order and searched his house.
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POLICE have served Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim with a firearm prohibition order as he was leaving his eastern suburbs home this morning.
The order was served on him and his car searched about 10.30am by local police and gun sniffer dogs and seized $65,000 in cash and a bag of white powder, the substance of which is yet to be determined.
Following the provision of the firearm prohibition order, Mr Ibrahim’s Dover Heights home and vehicle were subjected to a search. No items of interest were found during the course of the search.
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“It is our view that the Firearm Prohibition Order constitutes an abuse of process and power. Mr Ibrahim intends to vigorously challenge the provision of that order,” Mr Ibrahim’s lawyer Abbas Soukie said today.
“Mr Ibrahim emphatically rejects any suggestion, express or implied, of any involvement in any illegal activity, and regards the continued and sustained harassment by the New South Wales Police as unwarranted.
“They have no reason to be serving a FPO on him,’’ Mr Soukie said.
NSW police confirmed a FPO was served on him. Police have been actively serving FPO’s on people throughout Sydney.
Radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands turned up at Mr Ibrahim’s home this afternoon.
Sandilands is good friends with Mr Ibrahim, with the KIIS FM host featuring heavily in Mr Ibrahim’s tell-all book Last King of the Cross.
Sandilands, who rents another home belonging to Mr Ibrahim in the same street, drove up in his black Bentley about 2.30pm asking officers to be allowed inside. His request was refused.
“I just came to pick up some Versace jackets,” Mr Sandilands told reporters before getting into a bizarre rant with journalists walking by his car.
“Don’t you f***ing damage my car, running through there, Channel Ten. You just employed me. I’ll charge you for that”.
Sandilands said Mr Ibrahim was not home, but said they spoke every day.
“I just said I’m about to pull into your street and he said ‘there’s a welcoming party there for you’. Then he laughed and hung up.”
Sandilands denied there were any guns in Mr Ibrahim’s property.
“Have you seen the guy? He’s relaxed these days,” he said.
“There’s no guns here. They’ve been here 40 times. They’ve pulled out walls with suction cups. There’s no guns. Stop wasting money.”
“All he does now is read his own book and watch TV.”
Sandilands was questioned as to whether police were interested in a safe on the top floor.
“Last time it was just full of sex toys, wasn’t it? Is that the same one? I wouldn’t even know if they’re used. I imagine they would be.”
“I’m just going to see if there’s any jackets left in there”.
Kyle Sandilands has spoken to media outside the home of John Ibrahim. Police have raided the Dover Heights property in relation to a firearms prohibition order. #DoverHeights #7News pic.twitter.com/Sj9uEPi2rB
— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) 31 July 2018
The Daily Telegraph revealed in August how Mr Ibrahim released an autobiography, the Last King of the Cross, glamorising his years as one of the biggest nightclub operators along the city’s glitter strip.
He and his band of brothers — Michael, Fadi, and Sam — have become the city’s most infamous underworld family, thrust into the limelight through their wealth and contacts.