Sydney bikie boss Alen Moradian linked to four gang murders

Notorious underworld figure Alen Moradian - who was gunned down in a daylight execution in Bondi Junction - was a drug importing bikie boss from Iraq, who had links to at least four other organised crime murders on Sydney’s streets.

Notorious underworld figure Alen Moradian was a drug importing bikie boss from Iraq, who had links to at least four other organised crime murders on Sydney’s streets in recent years.

Moradian’s murder is the biggest of a two-and-a-half year underworld war, with it occurring in the heart of Sydney’s eastern suburbs, with no shortage of enemies who wanted him dead.

The 48-year-old has been a major player in the city’s organised crime circles for decades, and had links to at least four of the 17 other murders that have occurred on the city’s streets since late-2020.

He had partied with Marvin Oraiha in a CBD hotel room before the 24-year-old was shot dead next to his girlfriend outside his home in Elizabeth Hills last month.

Now both men are dead and police will probe any links.

Alen Moradian was shot dead in a daylight execution in Bondi on Tuesday.

Natasha Moradian, left, seen with family and friends at a house in Fairfield West after the shooting of her estranged husband Alen Moradian. Image courtesy Daily Mail Australia/Matrix

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Moradian was also known to be an associate of three of the other victims of the gang war – Lametta Fadlallah, Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad and Mejid Hamzy.

Moradian had known Fadlallah, 48, for years before her death at Revesby last August, and at one stage his wife Natasha and her had even gone into business together.

He had also come to know Ahmad well while behind bars between 2007 and 2017.

It was during that jail sentence that Moradian became a target for the rampaging Ahmad, with underworld sources saying the latter extorted the Comanchero bikie out of $500,000.

“Brownie bashed Alen and extorted him in jail,” one source said.

“He (Brownie) found out that he owned the biggest house in Fairfield, the Versace palace, and went after him.”

Underworld sources said the wealthy Moradian is rumoured to have put up some of the money to have the fearless Ahmad killed last April.

His links to Mejid Hamzy’s death in October 2020 come through “The Commission”.

The Public Order riot squad at the crime scene on Tuesday. Picture: Richard Dobson

Lametta Fadlallah was gunned down in Revesby in 2022.

Marvin Oraiha was shot dead in Elizabeth Hills last month.

Police allege that Hamzy was killed over the alleged theft of 400 kgs of cocaine from the Comanchero bikie gang.

In the aftermath of this incident “The Commission” was established by several big underworld players in an effort to tax and control the importation of drugs into the lucrative NSW market.

Because of his standing in the underworld Moradian had long been aware of the dangers he faced, but they were made especially plain and obvious to him when NSW Police warned him of a bounty on his head last August.

Moradian soon moved out of his family home in the lower Blue Mountains in a bid to protect his wife Natasha, shifted between secure high-rise apartments in the city and regularly changed the car he was driving.

Officers canvass Spring St following the shooting. Picture: Richard Dobson

But the life the Comanchero bikie boss chose to live for decades finally caught up with him as he left to go enjoy a gym session on Tuesday morning, unaware two gunmen were lurking in the underground car park of his Bondi Junction apartment.

“He was just getting in the car to go to the gym when he was shot,” a source close to Moradian said.

“He had been living in fear. There had been multiple threats to his life in the past year and he had changed cars, and changed addresses, hoping no one would find him.”

Moradian was the epitome of a gangster, with gold teeth and a love of the finer things in life such as his Versace-inspired home that had even seen his wife describe him as being like TV Mafia boss “Tony Soprano”.

He had been involved in setting up “The Commission”, which was allegedly formed in early 2021 by Comanchero bikies in an effort to tax and control Sydney’s lucrative drug market.

This meant the threats to Moradian’s life could have come from not only rival bikies and crime networks in Sydney, but also drug cartels overseas.

“This could be someone sending a very strong message to ‘The Commission’,” an underworld source said.

“He was every bit the quintessential international gangster, this (his killing) is massive,” one police source said.

The Bondi Junction crime scene on Tuesday. Picture: Richard Dobson

Firefighters were called to extinguish the car fire in Alexandria. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Moradian is believed to have been shot multiple times, including in the head, as he got into the front seat of his hired luxury car about 8.15am on Tuesday.

But the discrete nature of the shooting in the underground car park meant police were aware of a burnt out car on nearby James St first at 8.20am, before residents of Moradian’s building found him dead and called Triple-0.

A third getaway car was found on fire all the way across town in Zetland about 8.40am.

NSW Police State Crime Homicide Squad boss Danny Doherty confirmed they considered Moradian to be a “major player with a big target” and a “high-level criminal identity”, with high level links to the underworld.

“The shooting this morning bears the hallmarks of an organised crime murder … it’s being treated as that,” Detective Superintendent Doherty said.

“We believe this is a targeted shooting and high level organised crime.

“He’s a major player and because he’s a major player in the organised crime network and also has high links to the Comanchero OMCG, he obviously had a big target on his back.

“There were some shots fired. I know there were a number of shots.”

Moradian had previously served a decade behind bars between 2007 and 2017 for importing cocaine and was still on parole at the time of his death.

Sources who knew him said that he was looking at other sources of income in recent times, including breeding Cavoodles.

As the Homicide Squad faces another murder investigation, NSW Premier Chris Minns said he would “throw resources at organised crime”.

“This was a very public violent crime and we’ve been assured by NSW Police it will be met by the full force of the law,” Mr Minns said.

“I’ve got no doubt that senior police in great numbers are focusing on this crime.

“I’m very distressed to hear and understand that people may have witnessed this crime or the immediate aftermath in relation to it.

“It is clear from the NSW police and the government’s perspective, we will throw resources at organised crime in NSW and have a clear focus to keep the public safe.”

Originally published as Sydney bikie boss Alen Moradian linked to four gang murders