Alameddine family partner up with Comanchero drug bikie gang
The Alameddine family, currently locked in a feud with the Hamzes, has teamed up with the nation’s biggest bikie club.
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Two of Sydney‘s most powerful crime networks have joined forces in a bid to dominate the drug network.
In between fighting their highly-publicised ongoing war with the Hamze family, the Alameddine clan has also partnered up with the nation’s biggest drug bikie gang, the Comanchero OMCG.
Exiled drug kingpin and former Comanchero president Mark Buddle is known to have become associated with at least one of the senior members of the Alameddines.
Over the weekend a luxury boat cruise organised by associates of the Alameddines out on Sydney Harbour included one of Buddle’s former right-hand men among the passengers.
“I tend to think it started with these people basically being a workforce for OMCGs,” a police source said.
“And now our understanding is they started to learn, work and expand on their own, and now are teaming up.”
The revelation comes as investigations continue into the double murder of Salim Hamze, 18, and his father Toufik, 64.
Teenage gangster Salim was a known low-level associate of the Hamze organised crime clan who is believed to have been gunned down in a targeted attack outside his father’s Guildford home last month, with his dad killed in the crossfire.
But revelation of the Alameddines’ drug links to the Comanchero does not necessarily mean the bikies are also involved in the spree of fatal shootings that have occurred over the past 12 months.
Some have long wondered if criminals have been using the supposed feud and the attention on the Hamze and Alameddines to carry out hits on their mutual rivals, but senior police say their belief is the families are the only ones involved.
“Well put it this way, we have no intelligence to suggest that (third parties are involved),” State Crime Command director, Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett said.
“We have pretty good intelligence on these things, that’s different to evidence, but I wouldn’t characterise it as it has been suggested, no.”
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