Police probe Qaumi link in $40k prison guard drug bribe

A pair of brothers who are members of the infamous Brothers4Life gang allegedly paid a prison guard $40,000 to smuggle drugs into a south coast jail.

A prison guard allegedly took $40,000 to smuggle drugs into a south coast jail – money police suspect was paid by relatives of the notorious Qaumi brothers who are serving decades for brutal crimes.

Mumtaz and Jamil Quami from the murderous Brothers For Life gang, were jailed in 2017 over a campaign of what judge Peter Hamill labelled “outlandish and lawless violence” which transpired on Sydney streets as the gang decomposed in a 2013 civil war.

Jamil Qaumi, youngest of the Qaumi brothers, following his arrest on November 8, 2013. Police mugshot.

They were each being held at the South Coast Correctional Centre at South Nowra earlier this year.

Police will allege a female prison guard accepted $40,000 in cash and bank deposits to “traffic prescription medication and prohibited drugs into” the jail.

Mumtaz Qaumi was jailed for at least 36 years.

She was arrested at her home in nearby Worrigee this morning following a tip to police and an investigation which began in September.

She was taken to Nowra Police Station and charged with supply prohibited drug, agent corruptly receive benefit, holder of public office misconduct herself, recklessly deal with proceeds of crime (money/property) and knowingly deal with proceeds of crime.

The Daily Telegraph understrands detectives are now investigating whether it was relatives of the two Quami brothers who paid for the drugs to be taken in and if the drugs were for those two inmates.

The stash the woman allegedly took into the jail was estimated to be worth around $250,000 on the jailhouse market.

Mumtaz was the second-in-charge of the gang’s Blacktown chapter, behind the infamous third brother Farhad, when the pair allegedly organised the murder of debt collector Joe Antoun at his Strathfield home in December 2013.

For that murder and a string of other violent crimes, Farhad was sentenced to at least 43 years jail and Mumtaz to at least 36 years.

Jamil was not involved in the Antoun murder. He was sentenced to a non-parole period of 21 years for 18 offences including conspiracy to murder and Justice Hamill said he accepted Jamil was “under the influence of this older brothers”.

There is no suggestion Farhad is linked to the latest latest investigation involving the correctional officer. 

The prison guard was given conditional bail by police to appear at Nowra Local Court on January 25.