Parole authorities said murdered gangster Alen Moradian’s assassination fears ‘incorrect’

Parole authorities claimed gangster Alen Moradian’s fears of being assassinated were “incorrect information”, and blocked his plans to flee overseas.

Murdered gangster Alen Moradian had tried to flee overseas to avoid the assassins but was blocked by parole authorities who told him it was “incorrect information” that there was a “bounty on his head”.

The underworld Mr Big, who was still on parole for cocaine smuggling, attempted to leave Australia last August after two NSW Police detectives allegedly told him underworld figures had put out a contract to have him killed.

But the Commonwealth Parole Office rejected his request to allow him to travel overseas by relaxing his parole conditions, which were imposed after he served a jail term for smuggling 40kg of cocaine.

In an email sent to Moradian on August 16, a CPO officer wrote “the claim regarding being in danger with a bounty on his head” was “incorrect information”.

Moradian was gunned down in an organised hit on Tuesday in the car park of the Bondi Junction unit complex where he was hiding out.

Alen Moradian

Moradian’s lawyer Ben Jamieson. Picture: Tim Hunter.

When contacted yesterday, Moradian’s lawyer Ben Jamieson said: “This death was entirely preventable”.

“It is a catastrophic failure by police, Community Corrections and the Commonwealth Parole Office.”

On August 12, Mr Jamieson wrote to the CPO, asking for Moradian’s parole conditions to be relaxed following the alleged threat.

Moradian claimed to have been visited by two detectives from the NSW Police Criminal Groups Squad on August 10 who warned him that there was a bounty on his head.

A letter sent by Alen Moradian's lawyer Ben Jamieson on August 12 2022 attempting to vary his parole conditions after police told Moradian they had intelligence that said a contract had been taken out to kill him.

Response sent by Community Corrections to Ben Jamieson, Alen Moradian’s lawyer.

The detectives “advised that police have credible information that a substantial contract has been placed on his life and that he is under threat of imminent harm”, Mr Jamieson wrote in a letter to the CPO.

“Given the credible and serious threat to Mr Moradian’s life, application is made for (his) parole conditions to be varied to permit him to leave Australia and travel overseas,” the lawyer wrote.

The black Audi that Alen Moradian was sitting in when he was shot dead through the window in a carpark in Bondi Junction on Tuesday. Pic: NINE NEWS.

Moradian received a response from Corrective Services NSW on August 16, passing on the message that the CPO had rejected his request.

“After making contact with Police intel (sic), they have found Mr Moradian’s claim regarding being in danger with a bounty on his head as incorrect information,” a Community Corrections officer wrote in the email.

“As such we have decided that Community Corrections will not be recommending a variation on his parole conditions.”

A NSW Police spokeswoman declined to comment about the alleged threat to Moradian’s life.

“As the investigation is ongoing, we are unable to comment,” the spokeswoman said.

CPO declined to comment on why Moradian’s request to travel overseas was rejected.

The Sistine Chapel style painting on the ceiling of Moradian’s home in North West Sydney.

Moradian was shot dead just after 8am on Tuesday as he got into a hired Audi in the secure underground car park of his Bondi Junction unit complex on Spring St.

Seven bullet holes were visible on the sports car‘s driver side window when it was removed by police this week.

Reports this week said Moradian had been “living in fear” for the past 12 months and had moved out of the family home he shared with his wife into a rotating collection of properties, to protect his safety.

He was also reported to have changed cars regularly.

Moradian was considered one of the ‘Mr Bigs’ of the Sydney underworld and was linked to the Comanchero bikie gang.

He was nicknamed the “Tony Soprano of the Sydney drug trade” after his wife was recorded on a police phone tap that Moradian was too flashy with his money and should be more discreet, like the main character of the famed TV series, The Sopranos.

Moradian notoriously spent more than $1 million decking his Sydney home out with Versace furniture and paid top dollar for a Sistine Chapel-style painting on the ceiling of one of the rooms in the house.