Inside an alleged Sydney shootout between feuding Nomad bikies

Missing drugs and $400,000 down the drain saw the Nomads bikie gang spectacularly implode in internal feuds, including an alleged shootout on the streets of Sydney.

Missing drugs and $400,000 down the drain saw the Nomads bikie gang spectacularly implode in internal feuds, including a wild west shootout on the streets of Sydney and mates secretly plotting to kill each other.

All it took detectives was a McDonald’s burger package, some serious admissions over the phone, and Nomads Parramatta president Sayed Mohammed Ali Moosawi taking selfies with guns to stop the mayhem.

Back in September 2021 Sydney’s underworld, and specifically Nomads in Western Sydney, were sent into a spin after they had been “ripped” — ripped off — in a $400,000 drug deal gone wrong.

What happened next saw a “pick a side or die” mentality adopted among its members.

Moosawi laid the blame squarely at Parramatta chapter member Nomad Gerard Joseph, according to a series of documents tendered in court.

Moosawi had aligned himself with Nomads associate Anthony Lahood, while Joseph was assisting the men figure out who stole the drugs and lost their money, unaware the men considered him the prime suspect, the documents stated.

Sayed Moosawi in his Nomads colours

According to court documents, when it became clear to Joseph, he found support in another Nomads associate.

But when an innocuous meeting between Moosawi and the Nomads associate on a suburban Merrylands street took place, police alleged all hell had broken loose, with both men allegedly pulling out guns and firing at each other.

Sayed Moosawi leaving Parramatta District Court this week with his lawyer Zemarai Khatiz.

Moosawi was handed a three-year intensive corrections order this week for later conspiring to kidnap Joseph, but was acquitted at trial of shooting at him and the ­associate.

Joseph pleaded guilty and avoided a jail sentence for using an offensive weapon and possessing a firearm, while Lahood was handed a 21-month intensive corrections order after pleading guilty to conspiracy to kidnap.

The Nomads associate has pleaded not guilty to shooting with intent and is currently before the courts.

“Do you reckon we damaged the car,” Lahood asks in one phone call recorded by cops after the shooting.

“I don’t know man,” Moosawi replies.

Guns Sayed Moosawi was convicted of dealing with.

According to court documents Moosawi claimed to have had “15 boys lined up for tomorrow” to find his ­enemies.

“We just wait outside and when he comes back we finish him then,” he allegedly said in the same phone call.

A day later, another phone call, this time the men police accused of shooting at each other just hours before were attempting to patch things up.

“Why you telling me jump out of the car then your mates comes with the f … ing bally what do you expect me to do sit there and get shot,” the Nomads associate was allegedly recorded saying.

“So why you come shooting at me for okay listen you f … ing gronk I bought you at that place when I got ripped,” Moosawi replies.

One of the cars located by police.

According to a transcript of the call, talk turns to Joseph begging Nomads president Moosawi for forgiveness and fearing there was a $200,000 hit on his life.

“Did you hear me bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, I done it straight away,” Moosawi later says in the call.

Moosaw, pictured, said through his lawyers in court he has since removed himself from the world of organised crime.

The burger packet seized by police that ultimately helped solve the case.

“I didn’t know what the f… happened, I seen the guy ballied, I just started blasting … my f....n’ brother’s car has 15 bullets in the back of it, trust me I don’t heard it and seen it.” the Nomads associate allegedly says.

Once things have calmed down the rival parties go back to their camps and discuss the next steps.

“If (the Nomads associate) gets … would you say in court that they came and shot at you the night before? Because I’m going to try to knock him,” Moosawi was recorded in a call to Lahood.

“You can be the witness. I say there is the witness that came and shot at me. Yeah but listen bro if I kidnap him have you got a place to put him somewhere … Alright done it’s going to happen today. He is going to come see me, pretend everything is OK. I will say I forgive you come see me … once he comes see me I will jump in his car … and I will take off I will have about 15 boys with me.”

One of th guns seized police said Moosawi took a selfie with. Alameddine crime family associate Dawood Zakaria was later convicted of possessing them.

The next day, more telephone intercepts capture the two men plotting what to do next.

“F … him. I’m not gunna let it go like this, I promise I’m not. I’m gonna disable the c … and do five years jail,” Moosawi says according to court ­documents.

When Moosawi arrived to the meet up arranged to lure Lahood into a kidnapping, he was met by a swarm of tactical police who placed him under arrest in Yennora.

Detectives had been listening in the entire time and in court documents police stated if it was not for that intervention Joseph was in serious danger of being killed.

Joseph was convicted for his role in the shootout but not jailed when he faced court with his lawyer Omar Juweinat.

Police tied the white Mazda he and the Nomads associate used to flee the shooting thanks to a McDonald’s burger packet they left inside the car matched their lunch order at the chain’s Parramatta restaurant.

Moosawi’s problems with the law did not end there. He was also convicted this week of dealing with proceeds of crime and possessing two guns after he took a 15 second video with them.

The guns, according to court documents, belonged to the brother of Alameddine crime family heavyweight Masood Zakaria’s brother, Dawood Zakaria, who was later convicted of possessing them.

Moosawi’s legal team of barrister Greg James and Zemarai Khatiz this week told the District Court he had removed himself from organised crime and had a troubled childhood in the middle east.

Moosawi watched his brother beheaded by the Taliban in Afghanistan as a teen before arriving in Australia as a refugee and had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, the court was told.

Judge Stephen Hanley said Moosawi had “realistic prospects of prosocial goals in the future”.

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