Concerns others remain on the “to-do lists” of exiled crime bosses after death of Sam Abdulrahim

The prospect of revenge over the murder of Sam Abdulrahim appears unlikely but there are concerns others remain on the “to-do” lists of two exiled Melbourne crime lords.

The prospect of revenge over the Sam Abdulrahim killing appears unlikely but there are concerns others remain on the “to-do” lists of exiled Melbourne crime lords Kazem Hamad and Ahmed Al Hamza.

A prime theory for the murder of Abdulrahim is that Hamad, now based in Iraq, believed he had set up his Middle Eastern organised crime figure mate Kadir Ors to be shot dead by George Marrogi in 2016.

There was another murder a year earlier which Hamad is unlikely to have forgotten.

In 2015, his brother-in-law Khaled Abouhasna was shot dead late at night outside his home at Altona Meadows.

Hamad had been with Abouhasna at the time and there is a school of thought that he may have been the intended target when the gunman opened fire.

Kazem Hamad’s reach is getting stronger.

His extraordinary wealth and power means Hamad’s reach from 12,600km away is now strong and getting stronger.

Abdulrahim had been back in Melbourne for only a day when he was hit and there is widespread bafflement at how the killers knew his location so quickly.

“How did they find him so fast?” one source said.

Al Hamza is also suspected of holding grudges of his own.

There has already been a frightening attack directed at the family of a man who once stabbed one of his close relatives.

Gunmen stormed a property in the northwestern suburbs but the plan was abandoned when they realised they had the wrong house.

The man who stabbed Al Hamza’s brother had previously been brutally bashed in a bayside ambush.

Last month, MEOC figure Hawre Sherwani was shot dead by killers who posed as police to intercept his car in Caroline Springs.

Sources have questioned how the killers found Abdulrahim so fast. Picture David Geraghty

Though there is no evidence Al Hamza was behind that crime, they were on bad terms because Sherwani was suspected of shooting him in the leg at Campbellfield Plaza in 2016.

Both Hamad and Al Hamza are known to harbour deep ill-will towards members of the Marrogi family over a number of longstanding grievances.

Abdulrahim had been relatively safe in the year or so he spent with the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang.

But, in early 2022, he and a number of other senior members, including Toby Mitchell and Mark Balsillie, parted ways with the club.

His affiliation with the formidable Mongols, one of Australia’s big-six OMCGs, had provided some degree of protection

On May 3 last year, the Herald Sun revealed Abdulrahim had linked up with the Sydney-based Brothers for Life gang.

It shaped as a major boost to hook up with BFL, led by Sydney MEOC figure Mohammed “Little Crazy” Hamzy.

Mourners farewell Sam Abdulrahim.

But, three weeks later, it became clear the merger would not scare off Abdulrahim’s enemies.

A hit team, split into two carried out a dead-of-night plot which should have been the end of Abdulrahim.

One group set fire to his parents’ vehicles at Brunswick and, when he stormed out of his Thomastown home to respond, others were waiting.

They fired 17 times at their target but missed with every shot.

A brief period of artificial intelligence warfare followed.

Bogus news reports alleging perverted offending, fake pornos and doctored movie scenes generated plenty of anger but the combatants soon tired of that tactic.