Yusuf Nazlioglu: Covert recordings reveal reality of Sydney underworld

Covert listening devices installed in the home and prison cell of a leading bikie have revealed the chilling and shockingly violent reality of Sydney’s underworld.

In a chilling insight into the high stakes world of Sydney’s underworld, the man acquitted of the high-profile murder of Comanchero boss Mick Hawi has been recorded declaring how he doesn’t fear being a dead man walking.

Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu may be released from prison as soon as Thursday when he is sentenced for possessing a gun in contravention of a firearm prohibition order.

The man was found not guilty by a Supreme Court jury last year of shooting dead Mick Hawi outside a Rockdale gym in 2018.

Recordings of covert listening devices, tendered to the NSW District Court during a sentence hearing on the gun offence, reveal the criminal’s carefree attitude to threats on his life.

“I used to hear people outside were going to knock me, yeah?” Nazlioglu was recorded saying inside Silverwater Prison last year.

Yusuf Nazlioglu pictured in handcuffs at Kogarah Police Station. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

“I used to still leave my house, brother, knowing that one day someone’s going to sneak up on me and put one in my head.

“But I still f*****g went to the same hairdresser, went to the same f*****g restaurants yeah. I still showed my face in front yard and hung out with boys at their porches at their houses, yeah knowing I’m gunna get knocked one day.”

He added: “Brother we still went to the same mosque brother where all our enemies know we pray at that mosque yeah.

“They could wait for us to walk out brother, did we sh** ourselves? Were we scared? No.”

Prior to his imprisonment he was also caught on covert devices placed inside his Macquarie St unit in 2018.

Court documents state he was thought to be alone and rummaging through drawers when he was caught saying: “oh my god. I’ll put, put a bullet with pleasure and one in his eye”.

Recordings from March 2018 also captured the bikie speaking about a gym workout with Ahmad Doudar, who was convicted as an accessory after the fact to the Hawi murder.

Mick Hawi was gunned down in Rockdale back in 2018

“I might just go train, smash some legs. Go over there, you know, go there, big session come home,” he was heard saying.

Nazlioglu told the District Court last week, when released from prison, he plans to live a crime-free life.

His legal team asked the court for a prison sentence which would allow him to walk free immediately, in light of the two years and ten months he had already spent behind bars on remand.

Judge Tanya Smith will hand down the sentence on Thursday.