Omar Mahfouz: Bankstown cocaine dealer jailed for drug supply
A cocksure southwest Sydney man who bragged about police having no idea about his lucrative Sydney-wide cocaine syndicate has finally faced the music after being handed a hefty jail term.
The Express
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On March 8 last year, convicted drug supplier Omar Fawaz Mahfouz spoke to his trusted drug runner who couriered his bags of cocaine in taxis to buyers across greater Sydney.
The drug runner – as detectives listened in on a tapped phone call – raised fears to his ‘boss’ Mahfouz that police were onto them, leading the Bankstown man to boast how police were clueless to their lucrative criminal scheme.
“They are not watching you,” Mahfouz said, as stated on the agreed facts. “If they are watching you, they would have f**ked you by now.
“We have been doing this for five years, it’s been five years. They are not doing anything bro.”
In Downing Centre District Court on Friday the scale of Mahfouz’s criminal enterprise was laid bare with the court hearing the 30-year-old man would talk drug-running almost everyday with his drug courier. Mahfouz pleaded guilty to supplying 236g of cocaine to the drug runner between February 6 and March 23 last year. The Bankstown man also pleaded guilty to ongoing drug supply, after personally delivering bags of cocaine on ten occasions in the same period
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Intercepted phone calls revealed arrangements where Mahfouz would deliver 80 bags of cocaine which would be sold on the street for $250 or $300 by the taxi driver. On another occasion, the court heard Mafouz would drop over money to the courier.
Tapped phone calls also revealed tense dealings with Mahfouz’s upline supplier who, in March last year, called for $20,000 to be paid immediately.
When police raided the 30-year-old’s Bankstown home and his parents’ Bass Hill address, more than $100,000 cash was seized. Judge Jane Culver made no ruling on how the money was sourced or who it belonged to as Mahfouz’s parents, Gladiss and Fawaz, have pleaded not guilty to their involvement in the drug syndicate and will stand trial next year.
When Mahfouz gave evidence in August he revealed he had been abusing Xanax tablets, taking four each morning and night, with his drug use and gambling habits increasing following the breakdown of his marriage.
The court heard the 30-year-old had been previously jailed for drug supply after detectives discovered plans to sell illegal drugs in Western Australia, with Mahfouz’s accomplice arrested at the airport in 2013 with 55g of methamphetamine secreted in her vagina.
Judge Culver said she was “guarded” in the 30-year-old’s chances to stay away from illegal drug activity but found he was genuinely remorseful.
Mahfouz was sentenced to four years and two months jail, with a non parole period of two and a half years. He will be eligible for parole, on time served, in September 2021.