Multimillion-dollar bounties on Sydney underworld’s most wanted

Huge bounties have been put on the heads of key underworld figures, and police sources believe it’s because Comanchero boss Mark Buddle is “getting parnoid”.

Multimillion-dollar bounties have been put on the heads of key figures in Sydney’s underworld who have been warned by NSW Police they are marked men.

The latest is a rumoured $1 million dollar contract taken out on notorious Sydney crime figure, Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad who was only released from jail six months ago. Both he and police are aware of the bounty on his head.

There are contracts on two other major crime figures with links to the Comanchero bikie gang as well as existing threats against what is left of the Hamzy family.

Also under threat is Omar Elomar, who was kidnapped in January, before his home and business were shot up in the space of 72 hours earlier this month.

Little known Sydney businessman Mustafa Ramlawie is another to find himself with a target on his back, in the form of a $1 million contract after falling in the middle of the deadly Alameddine and Hamzy feud.

NSW Police State Crime Command director, Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett confirmed a number of gangland figures had been raided in recent weeks using Firearms Prohibition Order (FPO) legislation, which allows police to search certain people whenever they like, in an effort to calm tensions and keep an eye on gangland ­figures.

“We continue to relentlessly target anyone associated with organised criminal networks operating throughout Sydney and work with the South West Region command,” Superintendent Bennett said.

“If you choose to live a life of crime and conflict you can expect the added pressures of constant police attention, and the imposition of restrictive orders like FPOs, Serious Crime Prevention Orders, and other compliance-based measures.”

Police last week raided two addresses in southwest and inner city Sydney linked to Brownie Ahmad, shortly after he returned to Australia from a trip to visit relatives and friends in Lebanon.

Ahmad was last year told by police about a potential contract on his head before he went overseas. He returned, well aware the contract still exists.

Just to make sure, police again knocked on his door last week to let him know word on the street was that he still had a bounty on his head.

Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad, brother of murdered Wally Ahmad, was behind bars for five years and was only recently released.

Police and underworld sources said it was well known that Ahmad had recruited a number of followers and still has a loyal base in southwest Sydney.

It has long been known there is bad blood between Ahmad and Mohammed ­Alameddine.

Brownie was jailed for five years for the manslaughter of another crime figure, Safwan Charbaji at Condell Park in 2016.

What followed was a bloody 12 months as war raged between the Ahmads and the Elmirs which included the death of Brownie’s brother, Wally Ahmad at Bankstown Centro shopping centre.

No one has been arrested for that murder, but there are rumours that a senior Alameddine figure was the driver of the getaway vehicle and a Comanchero associate the ­assassin.

Both underworld and law enforcement sources said Comanchero bikie boss Mark Buddle is believed to be behind some recent contracts put out across Sydney.

Police sources believe bikie boss Mark Buddle is “getting paranoid” and putting out hits on enemies.

“He has so much money and is sitting overseas where he thinks he can order murders with impunity,” said a senior NSW Police detective.

“There are always people willing to kill if the price is right … and people like Buddle prey on that.”

In the underworld it’s well known that Buddle is still furious about a 400kg cocaine shipment that vanished from a Sydney warehouse.

“There is word around now that he thinks it has to be someone very close to him who knew where the gear was stashed,” said one underworld source.

And an officer who has ­followed him for year said “he seems to be getting very ­paranoid”.