The War 2: Addicted and reckless: Cocaine King Alen Moradian thought he was bulletproof

Cocaine was the key to slain Alen Moradian’s extraordinary wealth but it also proved his undoing, the underworld kingpin ironically becoming addicted to the drug that had afforded him a luxury Tony Soprano lifestyle.

Cocaine was the key to business success for Alen Moradian, but according to a man who sat across the table from him on a number of occasions, it was also a major factor in his downfall.

Moradian’s drug empire had seen him amass an extraordinary wealth over decades before his alleged assassination at Bondi Junction last June.

But it had also at one point landed him behind bars, with a drug addiction resulting in him becoming “reckless” and being caught for playing a central role in an importation worth tens-of-millions of dollars.

Dr Tim Watson-Munro met with Moradian multiple times while he was behind bars back in 2010 and remembers him as “one of the better people he has had to deal with” in his job.

But he told The Daily Telegraph as part of an interview in The War II: Kill or be Killed it was obvious to him that the crime figure’s obsession with wealth and addiction to cocaine were problematic back then.

Alen Moradian became addicted to the drug that brought him enormous wealth.

Moradian’s wife urged him to be more like TV mobster Tony Soprano.

“In terms of my interaction with him, I think the most relevant thing in terms of his conduct, his attitude, his thinking, was that he had a significant addiction to cocaine and more particularly crack cocaine,” Dr Watson-Munro recalled.

“And when people start smoking crack, they lose touch with the magnitude of what they’re doing, they think they’re bulletproof.

“That really was Alen (Moradian) to a T … a guy who’s affected by drugs and enjoyed the trappings of wealth.”

Despite his fearsome reputation and associations with some of the most high-profile bikies and criminals in Australia, Moradian.

Moradian spent his drug money on gold-plated accessories.

Versace Palace... Inside Moradian’s Pennant Hills home.

Moradian’s expensive assets were confiscated

in the investigation into cocaine supply.

Luxury... xxterior of Moradian’s Pennant Hills home.

Alen Moradian's wife Natasha urged her husband pull his head in.

“I found him to be very respectful, he was cooperative, he was an intelligent guy, and he was a bloke who loved the trappings of wealth,” Dr Watson-Munro said.

“(In my job) you can get people who are a bit hostile about being there … not towards me, but the fact that, you know, they’re outraged that people would make these allegations against them.

“I didn’t find Moradian to be that way at all. As I say, he was cooperative, he was respectful, he was articulate, and he was one of the better people I thought to deal with.”

Criminal Psychologist Tim Watson-Munro said

Moradian had a significant addiction to cocaine.

While it was Dr Watson-Munro’s job to delve into what had brought Moradian undone after it happened, the gangster’s wife Natasha had been able to see it coming ahead of time.

Like so many wives Mrs Moradian seemingly knew her husband better than he knew himself, and months before NSW Police and the NSW Crime Commission brought down the drug syndicate he was central too, she had sent Moradian an email warning that he was bringing himself unstuck.

In the email she made reference to legendary TV mafia boss Tony Soprano, who while rich and powerful, also managed to ensure he did not draw unwanted attention to himself.

More footage released by police shows two men getting into a red Holden Cruze on nearby James Street after Moradian’s execution.

CCTV released by police shows a gunman jumping into a car after Moradian was shot.

The entry to the underground car park where Moradian was shot dead.

Alen Moradian’s funeral at Greenfield was closely watched by Sydney’s underworld and the police.

Moradian had done so but not only using the money he made from his drug imports to buy a home in the Hills District of Sydney, but by then going to do it up with gold finishings and personalised Versace furniture, as well as the minor detail of Sistine Chapel mural on his roof.

And so Mrs Moradian sent him an email, hoping it would see her husband pull his head in.

“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.

“He doesn’t care who people think is the boss, [money] is his number one priority. You, on the other hand, want the attention, you want the big head, you love it. People like that won’t survive.”

Moradian would serve almost a decade behind bars for his role in the major drug syndicate, before being released – and then shot dead on June 27 last year.

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