Walid Ahmad gangland hit: Police hunting motive look into two executions linked to family

THE younger brother of slain standover man Walid “Wally” Ahmad will be arrested and charged over a fatal gunfight at Condell Park if he sets foot in Australia.

THE younger brother of slain standover man Walid “Wally” Ahmad will be arrested and charged over a fatal gunfight at Condell Park if he steps foot back in Australia.

Walid "Wally" Ahmad was shot dead at Bankstown Central

As the search for Walid Ahmad’s killer continues, law enforcement officials are preparing to intercept his brother Mahmoud Ahmad, planning an imminent return home from the Middle East.

A police official said Mahmoud, one of six brothers in the family and known as “Brownie”, is the most likely to carry out a revenge attack over his brother’s murder.

Detectives are still open minded about the motive for Walid’s murder and have looked into at least two prior executions linked to the family — one in 2012 and another in 2013 — for potential leads.

Mahmoud, 33, left Australia for the Middle East two days after the gunfight at The A-Team Bodyworks in Condell Park in April which ended with the death of Safwan Charbaji, one of several men who had gathered at the scene.

CCTV captures Walid Ahmad’s killer approaching as he dines with his bodyguard.

While Mahmoud won’t be arrested over the death of Charbaji if he returns, he is ­expected to be charged with shooting with intent to murder for allegedly opening fire that day. An arrest warrant has been issued for another man, Fawaz Elmir, also suspected of having used a firearm.

A number of crime families had assembled at the premises for a meeting which descended into several people letting off gunshots, one of which killed Charbaji. Three weeks later Ahmad’s older brother, Walid, a key figure in the argument that day, was shot dead by a hooded gunman at a Bankstown cafe in broad daylight.

Detectives have also considered the possibility that Walid’s slaying may have been carried out using the Charbaji incident as a smokescreen, a common underworld tactic.

Walid’s death focused ­attention on the rest of his family, a notorious underworld crew little known to the wider community outside of southwestern Sydney.

Police at the scene A-Team mechanics garage in Condell Park after the fatal shooting of Charbaji. Photo Jeremy Piper

Bloodstains on the roadside outside the scene of a shooting outside A-Team mechanics. Photo Jeremy Piper

Over the past 11 years, police have linked its six brothers to a string of crimes, including protection rackets, high-level drug distribution, and the murder of several people, though few convictions have been recorded.

Those murders have now formed part of inquiries being made by Strike Force Bindon, the investigation into Walid’s execution.

Detectives have drawn ­obvious links between the Ahmad and Charbaji murders, but prior slayings are also being canvassed, including the murder of Kevan Safwan, 38, in April 2012, and Vasko Boskovski, in July 2013.

Safwan Charbaji was shot dead following a meeting of crime families.

Police have been proactively targeting the Ahmad family with routine stops and searches of their homes to quell any attempts at a reprisal.

A day after Walid’s murder, several Ahmad family homes in Punchbowl were raided in a bid to find weapons and also as a show of overt surveillance to dissuade retribution.