Australian Crime Stories The Investigators Season 3 Episode 2

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00:00The first time I interacted directly with Abizar Sultani

00:29was down at Goulburn. There's a lot of layers to him, I think, but his crimes are awful, horrific.

00:36A man's body has been found in bushland off the Pacific Highway.

00:43The 30-year-old father was shot in the head near his Kingswood home.

00:48The main line of inquiry for New South Wales Police will be links to outlaw motorcycle gangs.

00:54The boss, he was part of the biker game. He didn't get into the drinking and the drugs.

00:59A man has been shot dead in front of his fiancée in an execution-style ambush.

01:05It sounded to me like five gunshots.

01:07Underworld kingpin Pasquale Barbaro's body sprawled on a footpath.

01:13He's a serial killer hitman. He didn't leave it to the others. He did it himself.

01:18My name's Detective Senior Counsel Anthony Moore. In 2016, I was attached to the New South Wales Homicide Squad.

01:35Early in the morning on the 30th of March 2016, we were just finishing our on-call period

01:49when we were notified that there was a murder out at Kingswood.

01:52Michael Davey was shot and murdered in Stafford Street.

01:58He did have a criminal background.

02:08The 30-year-old father was shot in the head around midnight on the street near his Kingswood home.

02:15He told his girlfriend he was going outside to meet a mate.

02:20Neighbours heard up to six gunshots and raced to help.

02:24I heard a car up the road screeching past.

02:27So, yeah, I'm pretty sure that would have been a getaway car.

02:32Mick Davey was a rebel, the Penrith City chapter.

02:42He grew up out in Western Sydney.

02:44He had a couple of different nicknames.

02:47The Prince of Penrith, Mickey D.

02:51He was a local identity.

02:54He was a member of the Rebels.

02:58He also was, you know, a son.

03:01He was a brother, and he was a father.

03:05He was a really genuine guy, an amazing father.

03:09He would drop anything for his son, anything, no matter what.

03:12We went to the family home of Michael's father, Will Davey.

03:21I did tell Will Davey that no matter who his son was, we would investigate this just as we would anyone else.

03:27And I told him that we don't get to choose who our victims are.

03:30They're all investigated the same way.

03:33And reporter Gabrielle Boyle joins me from St Mary's police station.

03:36Gabby, do police have any suspects tonight?

03:39Peter, the main line of inquiry for New South Wales police will be Michael Davey's links to outlaw motorcycle gangs.

03:46They've set up Strike Force Glenorchy.

04:11Detective Senior Constable Luke McEnany, who was the officer in charge of Mark Easter's murder, came to us and said,

04:18I believe the crew that I'm looking at in relation to Mark's murder are involved in your murder.

04:25Who was this crew?

04:28It's the Sultani crew.

04:30Up until then, I never heard of Abizar Sultani.

04:43He was an ex-rebel.

04:45Burwood chapter they had originally formed, but that was now defunct.

04:50The Sultani crew were into drug dealing, weapons trafficking, fraud, money laundering.

04:59Stephen Hunt is my name.

05:06Back in 2016, I was at the Homicide Squad.

05:11Initially I was called out to investigate the murder of Michael Davey.

05:16With the help of Luke McEnany, we were able to connect the Davey murder to the Easter murder.

05:22Starting with the fact both of those victims were patch members of the Rebels Outlaw motorcycle gang.

05:29Mark and Mick knew each other.

05:32They'd crossed paths.

05:34They were part of that greater Rebels OMCG group.

05:38Mark Easter lived at Little Bay in south-eastern Sydney.

05:41He was last seen alive three days before his body was found.

05:46He'd been out to dinner with his wife and then he'd been seen by a neighbour speaking to some people in his street.

05:54They were in a white van.

05:56The white van became a key part of the police investigation.

06:01We discovered it travelled north out of Sydney on the Pacific Highway before it was driven down a quiet bush track off the highway.

06:10So yeah, this is a photo of the van that was captured by a council camera that was looking into illegal dumping.

06:24And it was captured looking at the bush track.

06:29The white van returned back up the track past the same camera exactly seven minutes later.

06:36Council workers thought the van may have been used for illegal dumping.

06:39So they drove down the bush track to check it out.

06:42But instead of an illegal dump, they found the body of Mark Easter.

06:49A man's body has been found in bushland off the Pacific Highway at Cowan, north-east of Sydney.

06:55He hasn't yet been formally identified.

06:57Police are treating his death though as suspicious.

07:01Mark Easter had been shot four times in the head at close range.

07:05Finding the van was the best clue to finding his killers.

07:10That van was up at the central coast.

07:14It was pulled over by the police.

07:16The van on the face of it presents as just a tradie van.

07:20But importantly, there was a locked cabinet in that van.

07:27And within that was firearms.

07:33A ballistic mask.

07:35We'd found bleach.

07:37There was drop sheets, gloves.

07:40Things that linked it to the murder of Mark Easter.

07:44So it was highly important to what we were investigating.

07:50Sultani became a person of interest in the Mark Easter murder.

08:11And then the Mick Davey murder.

08:13Because it turns out his company, Civic Traffic, owned another van.

08:20A vehicle that may have been used to travel out towards the area that Michael Davey was murdered.

08:28So, you know, they could be involved.

08:33So we've got two Rebels bikies murdered.

08:36And two vans owned by Abzal Sultani, an ex-Rebel bikie, linked to these murders.

08:45Luke McEnany's team were one step in front of us.

08:49They'd been surveilling Sultani and his crew at their Sydney HQ.

08:56They'd moved from Ryde to Sydney Olympic Park.

09:00In one of the high-rises there, security building.

09:05Sultani and Amunchenzada were living there.

09:09Sia Amunchenzada was an interesting character.

09:12We came to understand he was Sultani's right-hand man.

09:16They'd both broken off from the Burwood chapter of the Rebels.

09:20And now they were flatting together in the high-rise on Australia Avenue.

09:27Luke's surveillance team had observed a couple of other guys coming and going from the high-rise.

09:32Joshua Baines and Mirwes Danashar.

09:37Danashar was Munchezada's cousin.

09:39They were all ex-Rebels.

09:42And now they formed the nucleus of the Sultani crew.

09:49The Savalanski placed inside the high-rise unit picked up all sorts of crew chatter.

09:54Most of it innocuous.

09:55But one short conversation recorded two days before the Mick Davie murder would become very important to our investigation.

10:00It's Michael Davie.

10:01It's Michael Davie.

10:02They didn't take the contract.

10:03So I can take it.

10:04Do you know any of what's going on?

10:05What?

10:06No.

10:07We didn't do anything.

10:08No.

10:09No.

10:10No.

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10:42Investigating the murders of Mick Davie and Mark Easter became evident our prime suspects

10:46were Abuzoa Sultani and his crew.

10:51This Sultani crew were working together, working as a team and this group were very disciplined.

10:57We had the surveillance tape of the crew talking about Mick Davy before his

11:01murder. As helpful as that was we needed more evidence and we needed to establish

11:06motive. If the Sultani crew did kill Davy were they acting alone or were they

11:13taking payment from a third party? Some of the intelligence was around dispute

11:19that Mick Davy had had with a underworld criminal called Erkin Keskin.

11:25Erkin Keskin was very well known in the underworld. He's quite feared, rumoured

11:31to have quite a lot of money, had a crane business, had an apartment in the toaster

11:36down at Circular Quay and seemed to be emerging as quite a high-level member of

11:41the organised crime groups in Sydney. We were hearing that Keskin was paying

11:47people to do murders for him.

11:52Keskin is probably one of the most dangerous guys around. He would pay $750,000 to get

12:01someone killed because he didn't like him. I'm Mark Morrie, I'm crime editor of the Sydney

12:08Daily Telegraph.

12:14Keskin was worth enormous amounts of money.

12:18He built his fortune as he rose through the ranks of the lone wolf motorcycle gang. Keskin

12:23became a major drug player. He was huge in that world. That's how he could afford to spend $9,000

12:29a week renting an apartment in the toaster. Keskin partied pretty hard too and one night he found

12:36himself exposed when he ran amuck in Sydney's western suburbs.

12:41Staggering down a driveway and leaving nothing to the imagination. Police wondering why he

12:47wasn't wearing any pants and where his weapon was. The Glock pistol fired three times. 38-year-old

12:55Erkin Keskin, a member of the lone wolf bikey gang, sparked this siege-like situation.

13:01We believe he may have been affected by something but at this stage we're not sure.

13:06It's fair to say that Keskin didn't enjoy the spotlight, especially when it was shining bright

13:11on him. And let's face it, not looking his best. But that little escapade, he was tagged

13:17the naked bikey and he hated it. Looking at Keskin the wrong way, you know, could be fatal.

13:28It was going to get me knocked at one stage, Keskin. Yeah.

13:36There was incidents there of fights in jail and firebombings of Keskin's interests out

13:53at Penrith. So that started to form the pattern of the intelligence and the information that

13:58we were getting from all various sources. In order to launch a prosecution, we needed hard

14:04evidence that Keskin had paid Sultani to kill Mick Davie.

14:07Did you ever form a clear link between Keskin and the Sultani group?

14:13Yeah, they met at a restaurant in Sydney. We had surveillance of them together at that

14:20time. The story goes that Keskin would pay for a hit, pay Ab Sultani, fly over to Dubai or

14:30wherever he wanted to be and have a very perfect alibi.

14:36The contract to kill theory became a plausible line of inquiry. Police spent a lot of time

14:42listening to the surveillance devices we'd planted in the high-rise apartment used by

14:46the Sultani crew. They were very conscious of the police methodology, so we had some devices

14:53in there, but they were very savvy with the way they'd operate in that apartment.

15:03They wouldn't speak about any of these matters. They'd communicate by Blackberry sitting at

15:08a table within the apartment, not actually communicate across the table, so they were

15:13very cautious. The best way to close the net around the Sultani crew was to watch and wait,

15:20and then strike when ready. So on September the 1st, 2016, we made an operational decision

15:29to go and have a look at what we call a safe house. We identified a safe house at Ada Street

15:37in Concord. It was a unit. Strike Force Raptor made a covert entry, and during that search,

15:51they identified that there were a large number of different type of weaponry, semi-auto rifles

15:58and pistols and pistols, ammunition. There was methamphetamine, heroin. There was ballistic

16:08vests, police shirts, license plates. They're basically ghost plates for different vehicles.

16:18Because of the complexity of what they were doing, they were utilising numerous vehicles, potentially

16:25up to 30 vehicles. They would have plates made for it that mirrored that car but were of a

16:33vehicle that wouldn't attract attention. And then they would go and park that car in a suburban

16:39street. So it was inconspicuous. And when they wanted to use it, they'd go along and they'd

16:45jumpstart the car. That car could be sitting there for months. Of course, what we didn't

16:53realise at the time was that another hit was in the works.

16:58This is Nine News with Georgie Gardner.

17:03Good evening. A man has been shot dead in front of his fiancée in an execution-style ambush

17:08on a street at St Mary's. A white sheet covers the body of 29-year-old Mehmet Yilmaz after

17:18he was gunned down, shot at point-blank range by men in balaclavas. Investigators say they

17:26have no doubt this was a targeted attack. They certainly wanted to make sure that this individual

17:32was deceased.

17:41September 9, 2016, Mehmet Yilmaz went to an address in St Mary's and when he came out he was ambushed.

17:54This brutal murder all happened right in front of a large number of CCTV cameras. Police say

18:00they are now reviewing the footage as they try to hunt down those responsible.

18:07So the video I'm watching here, this is CCTV of the murder of Mehmet Yilmaz. He walks outside.

18:17He goes to get in the car and the back of the car is illuminated by some headlights.

18:23It pulls up beside him, man leans out of the window and fires some shots at him, which hit Yilmaz.

18:32When an injured Yilmaz falls behind his car, the shooter jumps from the other car and fires

18:37twice to finish him off.

18:40Emmet's de facto gets out.

18:55There's a passer-by that comes and helps.

19:02That was a pretty callous murder, that one.

19:11Until then, we didn't know who Mehmet Yilmaz was.

19:16Investigations revealed he was a small-time dealer who'd been purchasing drugs from Keskin.

19:23Mehmet owed about $20,000 to Keskin and had been ordered to pay it and he decided that he didn't want to pay it.

19:38Mehmet had been kidnapped sometime earlier and taken to a warehouse in Western Sydney where he had been tortured.

19:45A finger was partially amputated.

19:51One thing we discovered about Erkin Keskin was he liked to be paid, sometimes at any cost.

19:58With Mehmet Yilmaz, he either refused to pay his debt or was unable to procure the funds.

20:08And that was ultimately what we believe was his reason for being killed.

20:14We identified that it was very likely that our Sultani crew was involved.

20:24Following the murder of Mehmet Yilmaz, police rewound the surveillance audio that had been recorded in Sultani's unit in the hours before the shooting.

20:34Police were not listening to the audio in real time.

20:37We only heard the tapes after the murder.

20:40What we were hearing was pretty damning evidence, but not enough to charge a Sultani crew.

20:55To directly link these guys to the Yilmaz shooting, we had to examine the car used by the assassins on the night.

21:07That car was a Commodore.

21:11So we found the Commodore at an associate of this group in the underground car park over at Rhodes.

21:24We seized the Commodore, swabbed it for DNA and sent the samples off to the lab.

21:29At the same time as we're investigating Abizal Sultani, we're looking into his background.

21:39There's a lot of layers to him, I think.

21:42He's an interesting person.

21:44His parents emigrated from Afghanistan and he grew up in a loving household in Western Sydney.

21:50His family was actually, I think, quite well-to-do over there.

21:57But in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of Afghanis were killed and the Sultani family fled Afghanistan.

22:09They fled over here and he had a bit of a struggled upbringing.

22:16Sultani attended Parramatta High School.

22:19His parents impressed upon him the need for a good education.

22:23He didn't smoke, didn't drink and was above average in English and maths.

22:28However, he fell in with the wrong crowd.

22:31He got into a bit of criminality early.

22:34People were blowing up ATMs to get the cash tins out of them.

22:42Sultani was part of one of the groups that were doing that.

22:45Did a little bit of time in jail.

22:51While Sultani was in jail at Silverwater, he met Sia Munchezada, who would ultimately go on to become his right-hand man.

22:59When Sia Munchezada's family had fled the Taliban for a life in Australia.

23:04The two young inmates bonded over their shared Afghani heritage.

23:08I've met Abs plenty of times.

23:23I thought he was devoid of two very important qualities that you and I have.

23:31And that's compassion and kindness.

23:35Because he was controlled by George and Joe.

23:46George Alex has the magic dust, which he just gets out of his pocket and he goes,

23:49blows it in your eyes and then sells you a dream.

23:53George Alex is at the centre of a web of unsavoury characters, including outlaw bikers, violent standover men and convicted terrorists.

24:04Just this week, his name was dragged into the Royal Commission into union corruption,

24:08with claims his labour hire companies paid weekly kickbacks to the CFMEU.

24:14Joe Antoon was a very violent person.

24:21He once told me about how he was doing a collection on somebody and had his hacksaw blade and cut the guy's little finger off.

24:29And I said, OK, is that supposed to scare me?

24:33He's a standover man and he's a nasty fellow.

24:36Joe and George were an interesting couple.

24:39It was like Laurel and Hardy.

24:42My mum was devishly smart and cunning and the other one had Braun.

24:47Burns worked with George Alex and his partner Joe Antoon between 2011 and 2012 in a labour hire company,

24:54but had a falling out over money Burns said the pair owed the business.

24:59They didn't pay the money.

25:00And it was just as simple as that.

25:02I'd had a heated discussion with Joe Antoon and about four hours later,

25:07there was a drive-by shooting on my house.

25:11During the night, gunfire rang out in the most unlikely of neighbourhoods.

25:16Cranbrook Road, Bellevue Hill, opposite Exclusive Scots College.

25:21Up to five shots hitting the front of the Burns family's palatial home.

25:26Well, I was in bed and I hear bang, bang, bang.

25:31I get up.

25:34I actually saw the car drive off.

25:37You're a bit shaken today, Mr. Dean.

25:39Well, you know, shooting at you will do that, you know.

25:43One bullet passing through a bedroom where one of his three children was sleeping.

25:48Missed her head by about 30 centimetres.

25:52Family's OK?

25:53My family's fine and the police are doing a thorough investigation.

25:567.30 has learned a key suspect in the shooting is a rebel's biker chief called Abuzar Sultani.

26:06Also known as Abs, he's a convicted criminal and a close associate of George Alex.

26:12Maybe it's a switch that just gets flicked.

26:15And somebody goes from being a mild-mannered accountant to a mild-mannered murderer.

26:21Police are investigating possible gang links to a man who was shot dead on the doorstep of his Strathfield home last night in front of his twin daughters.

26:43Just five years old, these little girls watched as their father was shot dead.

26:52Joe Antoon was hit by at least four bullets at close range when he answered a knock at the door of his Strathfield home.

26:59Joe Antoon was a standover man, although I don't believe he deserved to be shot and murdered in front of his children.

27:09I mean, those kids are traumatised for life.

27:12So the murder of Joe Antoon I think is a turning point for Ab Sultani.

27:19This was a person who he respected enormously and almost loved like a father.

27:26And I know the killing rocked him.

27:29And I think made him even a little bit more ruthless than he already was.

27:33He'd already showed signs of ruthlessness.

27:35It was Joe Antoon who had introduced Sultani to bikie culture.

27:42By the time Antoon was murdered, Sultani had become president of the Burwood chapter of the Rebels.

27:50Whilst I think he was part of the bikie gang, I don't know if it suited him to a great extent.

27:55He was the square peg in the round hole with a lot of the OMCGs, you know.

28:02Didn't get into the drinking and the drugs.

28:07Some of the Rebels were racists.

28:10And there's a story that he went into the Burwood clubhouse at one stage and was threatened to kill the whole lot of them.

28:16Because they had disrespected one of the crew that he kind of adopted.

28:21And so Sultani went out on his own and formed a crew with some of these young guys.

28:27Sultani was the leader.

28:29With the inner circle being Sia Munchezada, his cousin Moe Stanashar, and Joshua Baines.

28:38There was a bit of muscle there.

28:40There was a bit of technical expertise there doing legitimate activities, but a lot of criminal activity as well.

28:46He had a very tight crew around him with disaffected young guys who had become a black ops killing squad.

29:03They really did consider themselves a cut above everybody else.

29:11They were smart, but not that smart.

29:15And by November 2016, police were closing the intelligence gaps on a very dangerous group.

29:21We worked out that the Sultani crew were probably responsible for about at least three murders that we were looking at.

29:33Mark Easter, Davey, and now Yilmaz.

29:39With the Mehmet Yilmaz murder, DNA evidence obtained from the Commodore had confirmed a link to the Sultani crew.

29:48So the shooter in that video uses his left hand, which becomes very important.

29:55Very important.

29:59Our surveillance identified that Sultani is left-handed.

30:05Also the clothes he's wearing.

30:10Our investigators hone in on the fact that the particular shoes are worn,

30:15and we go back to footage of Sultani leaving the address at Sydney Olympic Park,

30:20and he's wearing the same shoes and clothing.

30:24So those little pieces of the puzzle become really important.

30:31The bottom line?

30:33We're very close to a resolution stage.

30:36When there's another murder.

30:37Underworld kingpin Pasquale Barbaro's body sprawled on a footpath, gunned down execution style.

30:53Barbaro was ambushed in his car after paying a visit to the Earlwood home of another underworld figure, George Alex.

31:00George Alex.

31:04When Barbaro was shot outside George Alex's house.

31:10And there's this image of this mafioso lying in the street dead.

31:16It hit the headlines in such a big way.

31:23People are going, what the hell's going on here?

31:30Pasquale Barbaro's cold-blooded execution on a Sydney street has our top cops worried.

31:40My number one concern always will be that a poor innocent person becomes a victim in the exchange of gunfire.

31:47Nine reporter Gabrielle Boyle is at the scene in Earlwood where Pasquale Barbaro was gunned down.

31:54This here's paid a very complex investigation.

31:57Not only do they have to speak with a lot of associates, but they've got to speak with a number of neighbours who saw things in the street in the hours before and afterwards.

32:06Pasquale was a pretty prominent member of the Sydney underworld.

32:10They've fallen to the left, fallen to the right of me.

32:18Wasn't really affiliated to any particular bikey gang.

32:21We quickly learned, however, that he was well known to the target of our investigation, Abazar Sultani.

32:31There was a lot of conflict between Sultani and Pasquale Barbaro.

32:36There was intelligence that both of them had had a go at each other at various stages.

32:45One of the first things we did was to look at the surveillance cameras in the apartment at Sydney Olympic Park.

32:49What we saw, they take the lift down to the car park and exit the building by car.

32:57Sultani and the group, including Baines and Simon Shazada, Danashar, they head out in a vehicle in a WRX and they head over towards Belmore.

33:12They go and pick up a car that they have stashed there and then they drive that car over to Earlwood and they commit the murder.

33:26And how did we know for sure?

33:30The first thing is we established the timelines, starting with Pasquale Barbaro.

33:34What we learned was that about 4pm on that day he goes to Larkal Avenue.

33:42He's certainly in the house of George Alex's mum.

33:47George Alex was evasive as to why Barbaro had been invited to his mother's place.

33:52We eliminated him as a suspect in the murder inquiry.

33:55However, we were able to establish the exact movements of the Sultani crew when they swapped out the WRX for an Audi Q7 at Belmore.

34:09What we learned was that Joshua Baines was in the back of the Audi,

34:15the Audi driven by Simon Shazada and Sultani was in the front seat.

34:21We established the Audi came to a stop a few doors down the road from George Alex's mother's house,

34:28where the crew lay in wait for Pasquale Barbaro to leave the house.

34:32He did so at 9pm, walking to his Mercedes parked on the street.

34:37CCTV from across the road picks up the Mercedes headlights coming on,

34:43closely followed by the arrival of the Audi Q7.

34:46The first shots are fired by Baines from the rear of the car and they strike Barbaro, who gets out of his car.

34:55And Sultani gets out and runs around the front and chases Barbaro down the road.

35:00Pasquale collapses and he's shot further by Sultani.

35:13It sounded to me like quite gunshots.

35:16The gunman fled in a stolen Audi Q7, which was later abandoned and torched in Concorde.

35:22Well, there was an explosion and the car was fully lit.

35:31Investigating the Barbaro murder, we soon realised there was a more personal element to it.

35:36There was a personal relationship between Barbaro and Sultani.

35:43Sultani had a hatred for him.

35:45He believed that Barbaro was involved in the Joe Antoon murder.

35:48Joe Antoon was a mentor and a friend to Ibizao Sultani and Sultani looked up to him very much

36:03and was very upset by his murder when that occurred.

36:0850-year-old standover man Joseph Antoon was gunned down at the door of his Strathfield home in December 2013.

36:15The court heard evidence that the hit on Joe Antoon was ordered by Pasquale Barbaro and Les Elias.

36:24On the afternoon that Pasquale Barbaro was killed,

36:28the tracking device is found by Sultani's crew in a car about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

36:34They still went ahead and killed him at 9 o'clock that night, even knowing that the cops are on tour.

36:39I actually think he probably knew the net was closing in and said I'm going to get this guy before I go in.

36:50I really believe that, you know.

36:51Two days later, they tracked Absoltani to a cemetery where he's putting down red roses on the grave of Joe Antoon.

37:07As if to say, I got him for your boss.

37:09This is Nine News with Deborah Knight.

37:17Good evening. A massive police operation has swept through Sydney Olympic Park

37:22as heavily armed officers hunted those responsible for a series of underworld murders.

37:27Olympic Park in lockdown. The tactical response unit in control.

37:35Weapons drawn as detectives arrest two men.

37:39There's another boy.

37:40There was the SWAT team and they had all the guns and all the police were running around.

37:44Every arrest today in full view of the public.

37:49Initially, I thought it was like a movie shooting or something.

37:55Thanks.

37:59So, yeah, this is a photo of the tactical operations police having arrested Sultani in the street.

38:06That was the point in time he hasn't seen the public again.

38:18And then there was this photo came through.

38:21Absoltani.

38:25And his eyes just looking up.

38:27As if to say, it got me.

38:29I remember watching Abs.

38:37He's sitting down on the footpath, looking a little bit bloody.

38:41It didn't go easily.

38:44A total of five men are thought to have been arrested.

38:47They are now being questioned over the execution of Barbaro and several others.

38:53And of great importance to us is capturing items of evidence that we think are going to have information

38:59about these murders, i.e. the Blackberries.

39:03They seized 11 vehicles, more than 40 mobile phones,

39:07and nine men with alleged links to the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang

39:11were charged with a long list of offences.

39:14Where were you on that day?

39:16I was actually at another search warrant at the address of Joshua Baines over at Wentworth Point.

39:29All those arrested 27-year-old Abuzar Sultani,

39:3328-year-old Sia Munazada,

39:3524-year-old Joshua Baines,

39:37and 23-year-old Mirway Danashar faced court today.

39:41And then I hear he's linked to three murders.

39:45And we came out the next day with murder ink.

39:48With the surveillance you had, could you have stopped the Barbaro murder?

40:09Yeah, the question of could we have prevented Barbaro's murder has been asked,

40:17and we ask ourselves, you know, as investigators.

40:23The answer from our point of view is no.

40:26You know, we didn't have the evidence to jump on them at the time.

40:31That evidence just wasn't available, and it wasn't available really,

40:34in a lot of them until we got into the BlackBerrys.

40:40We'd seized the BlackBerry devices used by the Sultani crew when we arrested them.

40:44But in order to build a brief of evidence for the murder trolls,

40:48we had to crack all the encrypted messages they'd been sending each other.

40:52And out of those BlackBerrys was a whole treasure trove of information.

40:59Some amazingly candid conversations about what they had done came out.

41:05Straight after the Barbaro murder, they are gloating, if you will, about it.

41:17There was a lot of, you know, nearly high fives, I suppose you'd say, from the group.

41:23The first time I interacted directly with Abizar Sultani was down at Goulburn

41:29when I got him out to be interviewed.

41:34He's an interesting human.

41:37He's clearly intelligent.

41:39He was studying a Bachelor of Business at Macquarie University.

41:43His crimes are awful, horrific.

41:47But at the end of the day, he pleaded guilty to five murders.

41:53In June of 2019, we started to review Strike Force Bandala, which is the murder of Nicholas Stribben.

42:10He was a 19-year-old kid that had been viciously assaulted in Redfern in May of 2013.

42:21Stribben deals drugs with his dad in and around the Redfern area.

42:26There's another drug dealer that's dealing for Sultani, but he was also dealing with the Stribben's.

42:34He had a $400 drug debt, and he was assaulted by the Stribben's.

42:40And he made a phone call to Abizar Sultani, saying that he was being stood over and assaulted.

42:48And Abizar Sultani obviously needing to exert his dominance in that area.

42:54Got the crew together, and they went into Redfern to deal with that situation.

42:58Nicholas Stribben was assaulted by this group of men, during which he was hit with a baseball bat.

43:19And he died as a result of that.

43:28Abizar Sultani and Sia Munshisada won't just serve one life term, sentenced to three for each of the lives they took away.

43:49Two men in their 30s who will never see the outside of prison again.

43:54Munshisada defiant until the end, waving a post-it note with the words,

44:01biased dog, before he was led away.

44:03Joshua Baines will be 56 when he's eligible for release.

44:20Murwaz Danesha jailed for a minimum 11 years.

44:25A once invincible hit squad, outnumbered and outsmarted by police.

44:31I can sit in their jail cell and contemplate the murder section.

44:34There is no middle, riddles, they're playing on me.

44:45The cat plays piddles, she do, she do as she please.

44:52They're falling to the left, falling to the right of me.

44:59The Sultani crew actually set the template for the modern day hits that we're seeing now.

45:10Sultani was very clever.

45:12He would have cars stashed all over Sydney, multiple cars.

45:16When you see someone's shot, then a car set on fire five kilometres away, that is the Sultani template.

45:26Interestingly enough though, Ab Sultani did the shooting.

45:29He was always the one pulling the trick.

45:34He didn't leave it to the others, he did it himself.

45:42Now the suburban executions and hitmen terrorise in quiet neighbourhoods.

45:47It's Australia's new gangland war.

45:51There's a hundred more of those young guys out there today who are all taking instructions and doing things.

45:58And the contract killings today are sort of a million dollars and more.

46:02That's a lot of money for some of those kids.

46:07I actually feel sorry for Abs.

46:09That boy will never see the light of day.

46:13He'll never be able to walk on grass again.

46:16He'll never be able to hold a child, his child, because he won't be having any.

46:20His life is over.

46:25Joe Antum sold him a dream.

46:29George Alex, he's a liar.

46:31He's a cheat.

46:33He's a thief.

46:34And he's about ready to spend the next seven to ten years in the right place.

46:39Police have smashed an alleged crime syndicate, arresting construction identity George Alex

46:45as part of the multi-million dollar tax evasion and money laundering scheme.

46:51George Alex was sentenced today to nine years and three months.

46:55The maximum jail term for conspiring to defraud the ATO of more than $10 million.

47:00He will be eligible for parole in October 2030.

47:05There'll be a lot of people in there that won't like George.

47:08It's not going to be a very comfortable life for George.

47:1238-year-old Erkin Keskin, a member of the Lone Wolf Bikey Gang,

47:17sparked this siege-like situation.

47:20And what eventually happened to Erkin Keskin?

47:24Apparently he's dead.

47:25He died in Turkey.

47:29So yeah, he's not with us anymore.

47:34In relation to whether or not we've heard the last of Abelazar Sultani,

47:41I'd probably have to say no.

47:43He's a serial killer hitman.

47:48He's already admitted to five murders.

47:51From what I understand, he's under investigation for quite a few more.

47:56It'll go into double figures.

47:58So the Abelazar Sultani story isn't finished yet.

48:05You never know.

48:07You never know.

48:08You never know.

48:10There is no middle riddles.

48:13They're playing on me.

48:17The cat plays piddles.

48:20She do, she do as she please.

48:25They're falling to the left.

48:28Falling to the rod of me.

48:30I'm please.

48:31You never know.

48:32You never know.

48:34You never know.

48:35You never know.

48:36You never know.

48:37I'll just say no.

48:38You never know.

48:40You never know.

48:42If you can't stop, he's completely out of me.

48:45I won't be instances.

48:47That's a great thing.

48:49I'll może.

48:51You never know.

48:53You never know.

48:55You never know.

48:56You never know.

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