Ezzeddine Omar is accused of being a fixer for some of Sydney’s most serious underworld players

Ezzeddine Omar was a master stolen car rebirther and the man, police allege, Sydney gangsters relied on to disguise an assassin’s getaway wheels.

Ezzedine Omar all­egedly provided a unique set of services to serious players in Sydney’s underworld, including the feared Alameddine family.

The 39-year-old “has no meaningful form of employment” say police. But he has allegedly played a highly sought after role as a fixer for a select group of Sydney crime figures, according to police documents tendered at his bail application in the NSW Supreme Court.

Omar has been charged with a host of offences, including murder, knowingly deal with proceeds of crime, recklessly deal with proceeds of crime, police pursuit – not stop – drive recklessly, deal with property proceeds of crime and knowingly facilitate organised car rebirthing activity.

Ezzedine Omar was arrested last year for an alleged role in the murder of Meijid Hamzy. Picture: NSW Police.

 

His lengthy resume allegedly included hiding the getaway cars that were used in crimes including the execution of underworld boss Mejid Hamzy, a kidnapping where a truckie was shot and had $550,000 cash stolen, and a series of ATM ram raids, the documents say. Police also ­allege in the documents that Omar is adept at dismantling and rebuilding stolen sports cars so they won’t be traced back to their original owners.

He allegedly had a collection of engines, parts and car frames stashed at various Western Sydney warehouses and homes.

Court documents also allege Omar had mastered a method of cloning registration plates and vehicle identification numbers to make stolen cars look like they were legitimately owned by the criminals driving them.

Yet many of the rebirthed cars were registered in a traceable fashion, under the name of Omar’s company, Yaz ­Enterprises, a chemical company that has never filed a tax return, the documents say.

Pictured: Liverpool arrest, Two brothers with links to the Alameddine crime network have been arrested over last year’s murder of underworld figure Mejid Hamzy., Picture: NSW Police

Omar was not immune from police attention.

He has been charged 38 times between 1998 and 2020 and jailed for offences including ATM ram raids, the documents say.

Western Sydney’s feared Alameddine clan, whose members are in the middle of a well publicised war with the family of crime boss Bassam Hamzy, were “linked” to Omar, according to the documents.

ALLEGED MURDER

Police allege Omar’s link to the Alameddines resulted in him playing a significant role in the murder of organised crime boss Mejid Hamzy, who was gunned down outside his Condell Park home on October 19, 2020.

On July 21, 2021, Omar was dragged out of a Liverpool house in his underpants and charged with Hamzy’s murder.

He was refused bail in the Supreme Court on September 22, when police alleged he played a vital role in the preparation for Hamzy’s murder and then attempted to cover up in the aftermath.

Mejid Hamzy, who was gunned down outside his Condell Park home on October 19, 2020. Source: Facebook

The documents allege Omar played a support role to two gunmen, who are still on the run. The gunmen shot Hamzy four times on Simmat Ave.

Ten other shots missed, with some hitting nearby houses and cars.

Omar is accused of driving a BMW and Mercedes that were used as getaway cars.

Police allege they have evidence that shows Omar preparing false plates for the Mercedes about a week before Hamzy’s murder.

The Rav 4 used by the shooters in the gunning down of Mejid Hamzy was torched. Picture: Supplied

A third car, a Toyota RAV4, was used by the shooters and was torched before they got in the getaway cars.

Omar also used his Moorebank home as a “staging location” before the shooting and as a safe house afterwards, the documents ­allege.

He is also accused by police of hiding the getaway cars ­inside a chicken shed on his other property, a Luddenham farm in Sydney’s southwest.

THE CHICKEN SHED

It was inside this chicken shed that police allege they found evidence that showed Omar had performed similar services for people involved in another high profile crime, the documents say.

On November 12, 2020, investigating police broke into the sheds. But they did not find the Mercedes and the BMW from Hamzy’s murder.

CTV image released by police of a Mercedes after the murder of Mejid Hamzy.

Instead, they found a Volkswagen Amarok and a Mitsubishi Lancer, the documents say. The two vehicles had allegedly been used in another serious crime on October 19, 2020. This was the alleged kidnapping and shooting of truckie Leith Carstairs who had $550,000 cash, which was hidden in the truck, stolen from him by five men at Mount Lambie on September 29, 2020.

“Police allege that Omar had a propensity to store vehicles used in serious offences, namely offences involving personal violence and firearms, inside the chicken sheds at the rear of his property at … Luddenham,” the police documents say. During the search, police saw other cars in the shed that were allegedly hidden under car covers.

CARS AND A BULLET

Police would soon discover more stolen cars allegedly linked to Omar, the ­documents say.

On November 25, officers raided the Bankstown home of Omar’s brother and found the BMW allegedly used after the Hamzy murder, along with drug manufacturing equipment in a granny flat.

In the house next door, police allegedly found a Toyota Kluger with cloned number plates that two women had rented from Thrifty Car Hire at Sydney Airport in August 2020 and never returned.

Police allege the vehicle was to be used as a “job car” and that it contained documents linked to Omar and a bullet for an AK-47, the documents say.

This was the image of a BMW police released that was allegedly used as a getaway car in connection to the Mejid Hamzy murder. Picture: NSW Police

On December 8, 2020, police returned to the Luddenham farm where they seized the Amarok and Lancer and found the engine of a Mercedes allegedly stolen from Concord in March 2020.

According to the court documents, a listening device had been installed at the property which, on December 8, allegedly captured Omar telling his wife, “What’s the best thing about Mejid? … Being dead.”

On March 3, 2021, police surveillance allegedly captured Omar exiting a Liverpool home carrying a number plate either the same or similar to that of the one on the Mercedes used in Hamzy’s death.

Omar also leased a unit in Greendale, which police raided on May 11, 2021, the documents say. Inside a shed at the property, police allegedly found a collection of parts from stolen sports cars.

This included a Porsche Macan engine that was stolen from Yowie Bay and a complete Audi A4 taken from Westleigh that was allegedly used in an unsolved ATM ram raid at Roselands in 2015.

Also in the shed was a Mercedes Benz and the engines allegedly from a stolen Ford Mustang, Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW. During his July 14 arrest, police allegedly found a Porsche Cayenne being rebirthed in the backyard. It had been stolen from Hunters Hill in March 2021.

NUMBER PLATES

The documents also outline police claims about Omar’s methods to disguise the stolen cars. This included searching online car sales websites for similar registered models to those of the cars police allege he had stolen.

The licence plate details were then allegedly copied from the site and passed to “a person who has the ability to print counterfeit registration plates”, the documents say.

The fake plates were then attached to the stolen car. If a police officer ran a search on the plates attached to the stolen car, it would appear legitimate because it matched the details on an identical car on the website.

“The vehicle, after it is used in the offence, is either destroyed by fire or stored for use with a second set of cloned number plates (while) the first set of cloned number plates are destroyed (or) retired,” the police documents say.

Police allege in the documents that Omar used the technique about one week before Hamzy’s murder, by searching for a Mercedes Benz CLA45 on Pickles Auctions, which is “a well known company that auctions vehicles including ‘repairable write- offs’”, the documents say.

It was a similar story with a stolen red Audi that Omar allegedly drove in a high speed chase with police in March 2021. Officers called off the chase in Villawood for safety reasons and allege that Omar later attached counterfeit plates to the sports car to avoid its ­detection.

Omar is listed to face Central Local Court on Monday.