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Lametta Fadlallah in business with drug bosses Luke Sparos and Alen Moradian’s wives

Panania shooting victim Lametta Fadlallah had a business link to two of NSW’s most notorious drug bosses, running a car hire operation with the wives of two convicted suppliers.

Shooting victim revealed as known gangster

Murdered Western Sydney mother Lametta Fadlallah was previously in business with the wives of two of the state’s most notorious cocaine kingpins.

As detectives delve into the history of Ms Fadlallah, who was executed by a gunman outside her Revesby home last Saturday, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the 48-year-old mother ran a car hire operation with the wives of convicted drug suppliers Luke “Fatboy” Sparos and Alen “Fathead” Moradian.

Business records revealed Ms Fadlallah was a director of Homebush-based business Got 2 Go Rentals, which existed between 2007 and 2012 ­before the Australian Taxation Office forced it into a court-­ordered liquidation over $276,000 in unpaid tax and other debts.

The records also showed that Christine Saliba and ­Natasha Moradian were fellow directors of the company ­between 2007 and 2008.

Saliba was the wife of ­Sparos at the time, while Natasha Moradian was the spouse of Alen Moradian.

The targeted victim of the Revesby shootings Lametta Fadlallah, pictured with partner Adel Dayoub.
The targeted victim of the Revesby shootings Lametta Fadlallah, pictured with partner Adel Dayoub.

Police investigating the murder of Ms Fadlallah are aware of the link but a NSW Police spokesman said that no comment would be issued.

Natasha Moradian, Alen Moradian, Saliba and Sparos are not accused of involvement in Ms Fadlallah’s murder.

Instead, it illustrates that Ms Fadlallah had links to ­significant players in the Sydney underworld.

In 2011, Sparos and Alen Moradian were jailed for a maximum 14 and 16 years ­respectively for their roles as the heads of a cocaine-smuggling operation known as “The Golden Gun Syndicate” that imported and sold more than 300kg of cocaine in 2005 and 2006.

The syndicate was paying $30,000 per kilogram for cocaine in the US before selling it in Sydney for $190,000, court documents said.

Saliba and Natasha Mora­dian were also convicted for dealing with, and attempting to hide, the huge amounts of cash that were earned from the cocaine operation.

Convicted drug boss Luke Sparos and
Convicted drug boss Luke Sparos and
Alen Moradian being unloaded from a prison van. Moradian was arrested, along with his wife and an associate, as the alleged head of a crime syndicate that supplied large amounts of cocaine and laundered millions in drug money.
Alen Moradian being unloaded from a prison van. Moradian was arrested, along with his wife and an associate, as the alleged head of a crime syndicate that supplied large amounts of cocaine and laundered millions in drug money.

In 2011, Natasha Moradian was sentenced to a maximum four years and six months in jail after pleading guilty to dealing with about $4.6 million cash from her husband’s drug operation between 2005 and 2007.

A year earlier, Saliba was handed a suspended jail sentence and placed on a three-year good-behaviour bond after she pleaded guilty to dealing with more than $861,000 cash that was earned from Sparos’s drug sales.

Ms Fadlallah was gunned down alongside her hairdresser friend Amy Hazouri, 39 last Saturday.

Both women were sitting in the back of a silver 4WD outside Ms Fadlallah’s Panania home that was being driven by a 20-year-old while another 16-year-old was in the front passenger seat.

Amy Hazouri was also killed in the
Amy Hazouri was also killed in the
August 13 shooting, which saw a burnt out car abandoned in Revesby Picture: Monique Harmer
August 13 shooting, which saw a burnt out car abandoned in Revesby Picture: Monique Harmer

Ms Fadlallah, a mother-of-two, was declared dead at the scene while Ms Hazouri died in hospital.

According to company records, the ATO won a court order to have Got 2 Go Motors wound up and placed into liquidation in June 2011.

Liquidator Robert Whitton reported that the reason for the business’s failing related to “Under-capitalisation, poor strategic management of business” and either “inadequate cash flow” or “high cash use”.

During Alen Moradian’s proceedings, the court heard his wife criticised him for not behaving more like mafia boss Tony Soprano in the TV series The Sopranos.

Inside a Pennant Hills home owned by alleged drug kingpin Alen Moradian in Sydney, nicknamed the 'Versace Palace'.
Inside a Pennant Hills home owned by alleged drug kingpin Alen Moradian in Sydney, nicknamed the 'Versace Palace'.
A gold-plated .357 Magnum Desert Eagle handgun related to Alen Moradian cocaine case
A gold-plated .357 Magnum Desert Eagle handgun related to Alen Moradian cocaine case

“Why do you just sit there and show off – ‘I am the man, I am the man.’ Do you see Tony Soprano doing that?” she wrote in an email.

The court also heard Alen Moradian provided more than $1 million for his wife to spend on Versace furniture and homewares to convert their West Pennant Hills home into a “Versace Palace”.

The operation became known as “The Golden Gun Syndicate” after police found a gold-plated .357 Magnum ­Desert Eagle handgun during one of the raids.

Sparos and Saliba are ­reportedly no longer married.

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