Abuzar Sultani: Court hears $20,000 debt settled with murder

A message had to be sent and a small-time drug dealer had to be killed. It was Abuzar Sultani and his crew who got the call up. WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO

WARNING:The decision by The Daily Telegraph to show the distressing CCTV footage of the callous murder of Mehmet Yilmaz was not taken lightly.

This is how his life ended over a $20,000 debt and is a warning to any young person out there thinking the gangster life is easy money.

Live like a gangster, die like a gangster.

The graphic nature of his death should make any young person thinking of a life of crime to stop. This is how you end up, dead in a gutter, shot in front of your girlfriend.

Hiding this from the public is to hide the reality from young people who think life as a criminal is glamorous.

The graphic video was played in court before a jury and judge.

This image shows Abuzar Sultani in the act of shooting dead small-time drug dealer Mehmet Yilmaz over a $20,000 drug debt.

Small-time drug dealer Mehmet Yilmaz owed $20,000 to the wrong people.

You might expect the focus for those left out of pocket to be on getting their money back, but that’s not how things work in the underworld.

When after two days of being detained and beaten Yilmaz not only refused to pay, but called the police, a message had to be sent.

Yilmaz had to be killed, and it was Abuzar Sultani and his crew who got the call up.

“The reason for the murder was that the deceased incurred a debt of $20,000 for drugs he had received but not paid for,’’ according to a fact sheet presented to court.

On September 9, 2016 a crew gathered in Sultani’s apartment at Homebush Bay. Present were the usual players: Sultani, Siar Munshizada, Jarad Prakash and two other men.

Court documents state it simply. The plan was to “shoot and kill” Yilmaz.

Abuzar Sultani.

Siar Munshizada.

Around 9pm the group left Sultani’s place, with the gang leader in a black Subaru WRX alongside Munshizada and two men, heading to an apartment at Wentworth Point.

Prakash followed in another car from Sultani’s place.

From the unit they took a Holden station wagon which had been stolen from a Glenwood home on August 22, fitted with fake number plates and sat ready for the job ahead of time.

They then assembled at an address in Mount Druitt while Sultani waited for information about where their target would be.

Earlier that day an associate of Yilmaz had asked to meet him at a St Marys home that night.

It was a trap and when Yilmaz arrived his associate sent a text to Sultani, whose encrypted Blackberry buzzed.

A black Subaru WRX spotted travelling with another car was spotted before Mehmet Yilmaz was shot dead. Source: Police Media

“He’s at the address,” the killing crew’s leader told Munshizada and the two other men, court documents state.

As they lay in wait outside the St Marys address where Yilmaz was, when he finally walked outside Sultani said “Go, go!” and Munshizada drove at speed up alongside the target.

Armed with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, Sultani hung out the rear passenger side window and with the gun distinctively in his left hand, shot Yilmaz causing him to fall to the ground.

Despite being wounded multiple times, Yilmaz staggered to his feet and tried to flee, before collapsing with his head in the gutter.

To Sultani this was business, he had been paid to kill Yilmaz and he would complete the job.

CCTV footage which was played to the jury shows that as the drug dealer lay dying in the gutter, Sultani walked up and stood over him, before pumping the last of the bullets into his “head and body” from close range.

When Yilmaz stopped moving, Sultani ran back to the stolen station wagon and they sped off at high-speed.

The post-mortem examination identified Yilmaz had been shot seven times. Two shots were fired into his head.

Moments later his distraught fiancee cradled him as he lay dead in the gutter.

Sultani and his killing crew had done their work, but for Prakash the job was only just beginning.

“At 7:22 PM, immediately following the murder, Prakash’s Blackberry was activated … (near) Gladesville,” court documents state.

“A short time later he drove to a residence at Stanhope Gardens to meet with (a man) who gave him 10L and 20L jerry cans, which contained petrol.

CCTV video shows bystanders on the scene after the execution of Mehmet Yilmaz over a $20,000 drug debt.

“The jerry cans with petrol were used to fill up the stolen station wagon without the need to go to a petrol station and risk being captured on CCTV.”

Munshizada then contacted another member of the crew to arrange for him to go with Prakash and “deal with” the stolen station wagon.

On September 10, the day after Yilmaz’s murder, the stolen station wagon was moved to an underground carpark in Meadowbank. Court documents state the intention of the group was “to conceal it (the car, in the underground carpark), avoid it being located by police and ensure it was not linked to the Sultani crew”.
But what the crew did not know was that police had placed a tracking device inside a white van used which was known to have been used by them.

Munshizada and Prakash took that van from Smithfield to the stolen station wagon’s location at Meadowbank, where they met with a man who then drove it in convoy with them to Kemps Creek.

The three men eventually left the stolen station wagon behind at Kemps Creek, but it wouldn’t remain there for long.

Police investigating the movement of the van arrived at the underground carpark the next day and discovered the getaway car.

“The vehicle was seized and subjected to forensic examination,” court documents state.

“The jerry cans deposited in the car by Prakash were located with his fingerprints found on the containers.”

Gunshot residue consistent with shots fired from two cartridges found at the Yilmaz scene.

Sultani, Munshizada and another man were arrested in October 2017 and have been convicted of murder. They will all be sentenced this week.

Prakash was convicted of being an accessory after the fact to murder and sentenced in October to a total of 10 years in prison. He is eligible for parole June 28, 2024.