Abuzar Sultani pleads guilty to Pasquale Barbaro, Mehmet Yelmaz, Michael Davey murders

By day Abuzar ‘Abs’ Sultani was an accounting student but at night he was Sydney’s ultimate hitman – responsible for multiple gangland executions, The Daily Telegraph can today reveal his grisly crimes.

By day he was studying accounting at a Sydney university but at night he was the city’s ultimate hitman — Abuzar Sultani has pleaded guilty to killing three gangland figures.

The story of the baby-faced gun-for-hire has been kept secret for the past three years by NSW Supreme Court orders while he and his crew faced back-to-back trials.

Today, those orders were lifted allowing The Daily Telegraph to begin publishing its expose on the deeds and inner workings of the crew as revealed by the court proceedings.

Abuzar Sultani last week pleaded guilty to three underworld murders.

Sultani was arrested at an Olympic Park unit block on November 29, 2016.

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

On Friday the 31-year-old will be sentenced for the murders of mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro, 35, Comanchero bikie associate Mehmet Yilmaz, 29, and Rebel bikie Michael “Ruthless” Davey, 30, by Justice Desmond Fagan in the NSW Supreme Court.

Sultani, a one time member of the Rebels bikie gang, was the commander of what one police officer described as a sophisticated “black ops” killing squad. Justice Fagan has described Sultani and his lieutenant, Siar Munshizada, as “serial killers”.

Munshizada, 33, had pleaded not guilty to the three murders of Yilmaz, Barbaro and Davey but was convicted by three juries.

They called themselves “murdercrew 13’ and some members had “Redrum 13” tattoos, which is murder spelt backwards and referenced in the horror movie “The Shining”.

Slain mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro.

Murdered Rebel bikie Michael Davey.

The full story can now be revealed after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal on Thursday rejected a last-minute bid to keep the details secret. The Legal Aid-funded lawyers for Sultani and his crew had appealed Justice Fagan’s decision to lift the suppression orders last week once the maze of murder trials was over.

Documents in the NSW Supreme Court which The Telegraph was granted access to by Justice Fagan reveal there was evidence presented that Sultani was the trigger man of another slain Rebels bikie, John Salafia. He has not been charged with this killing.

Although he pleaded guilty for three murders, Sultani has never divulged who paid for the murders or the involvement of his co-accused.

Coroner’s illustration of Mehmet Yilmaz’s fatal injuries.

Coroner’s illustration of Pasquale Barbaro’s injuries.

Senior police and underworld figures say another underworld boss living overseas contracted two of those to be killed as revenge for bashing him while in jail years ago and was rumoured to have paid more than $700,000 for each murder.

Sultani, the son of Afghani migrants, put together a crew of disaffected young criminals who quickly got the reputation in the Sydney underworld as the go-to team for murder.

His meticulous planning, the use of multiple stolen cars which were sometimes cloned and stored for months, fake registration plates and carefully planned escape routes has become a template for the modern-day hit seen in Sydney over the past six years.

Siar Munshizada. Picture: Toby Zerna

Abuzar Sultani in Rebels colours. Picture: NSW Police

There was a technical expert in charge of encrypted devices, another to look after weapons, someone to source cars to steal and even a real estate agent used to lease safe houses. Sultani’s inner circle included fellow-Afghani Munshizada, Mirwais Danishyar, 28, and Joshua Baines, 29.

All are now facing sentence for the murder of Barbaro.

One senior NSW Police officer referred to them as “a black ops” because of their sophisticated methods of operation.

Sultani, at the time of his arrest, was studying for his masters degree in accounting at Macquarie University in Sydney, having already been awarded an undergraduate degree in accounting.

But now Sydney’s best-kept underworld secret is finally out, five years after the dramatic arrests of the men ay Sydney Olympic Park in November 2016.

Justice Fagan had wanted the suppression orders lifted for the sake of open and transparent justice.

He said the men before him carried out “three cold, calculated murders … and there comes a point where their crimes must be exposed to the public. It cannot go on.”