Australian gangland suspects in Bali hit job re-enactment

A Bali police re-enactment of a fatal shooting in June reveals two alleged Australian hitmen were pursuing different targets at a luxury villa on the Indonesian tourist island.

Midolmore Pasa Tupou in a crime scene reconstruction on Wednesday. Picture: AFP

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A police reconstruction of a suspected gangland hit job in Bali in June has revealed two Australian gunmen were pursuing different victims at their holiday villa in a midnight attack that killed Melbourne man Zivan Radmanovic and injured family friend Sanar Ghanim.

Radmanovic, 32, was staying at Villa Casa Santisya in Bali on June 13 with his wife, sister in-law and her partner, Mr Ghanim, when two helmeted men broke in and fired shots in an attack suspected to be linked to a Melbourne underworld crime syndicate.

In a crime re-enactment on Wednesday, the two suspects, Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 22, entered the villa’s street on separate motorbikes dressed as online motor­cycle taxi drivers.

Mr Tupou allegedly went after Mr Ghanim, 34, who was shot in the leg and beaten in the attack.

Mr Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, stepdaughter of slain underworld boss Carl Williams.

Meanwhile, Mr Coskun pursued Radmanovic, who ran toward the bathroom, where he was shot point blank. An autopsy report found he died from a gunshot to the chest.

A third suspect, Darcy Francesco Jenson, 27, allegedly the mastermind of the attack, was waiting on the main road in a rent­ed Toyota Fortuner.

“This reconstruction is part of completing the investigation file to be included in the case dossier. The preliminary file has been sent to the (Badung) prosecutor’s office,” Badung Police Chief Arif Batubara said on Wednesday.

Police also escorted the suspects to a nearby hardware store where they bought a hammer used to force open the villa door.

Additional reconstruction scenes were carried out in Buwit Village, where the suspects abandoned their motorbikes, and in a rice field area in Anyelir, Tabanan, where they changed cars and drove towards a ferry port on Bali’s western tip that connects to East Java.

All three men were arrested five days after the shooting, Mr Jenson in Jakarta and the two others in Singapore as they tried to board a flight to Cambodia.

Police have claimed the crime was meticulously planned, from roles and equipment preparation to vehicles and a mapped-out escape route, and that Mr Jenson had provided the car and motorcycles for Mr Tupou and Mr Coskun, who carried out the shooting.

Authorities have since recovered two pistols believed to have been used in the murder, which forensic examiners have since linked to shell casings and bullets retrieved from the scene.

The suspects’ DNA has also been matched with gunshot residue, gloves and other pieces of evidence, police say.

Bali police are working with Indonesian attorney-general office prosecutors, who have six months to submit the case to the court.

Under Indonesian law, premeditated murder, covered in ­article 340 of the Criminal Code, carries a maximum punishment of the death penalty.