The drone buzzed in the warm spring air, hovering outside Forbes Street Studios, in the inner Sydney suburb of Wooloomooloo last September.
As darkness fell on the September evening, the drone was deployed by three men outside to attempt to watch the rappers through the studio’s window. Alleged contract hits in Sydney’s underworld tend to follow a pattern – cars are stolen, up to 12 months in advance, and sold to a criminal car broker then stored. In the leadup to a hit, at least one car is parked in a street close to the target; another is used to drop a hired gunman to the proposed venue for the attack. Typically, the cars are then doused in bleach or petrol, then set on fire.
A triggerman, a surveillance man and a getaway driver are among those allegedly hired to execute Bondi drug lord Alen Moradien in June 2023.fate in January this year when police swooped on a group of men allegedly plotting to murder him for a $600,000 payday.Enforcers can command from around $50,000 for an act of violence to more than $1 million for a murder, police intelligence says.
The alleged would-be killers had firearms, stolen “homework cars” used for surveillance, bottles of bleach to remove DNA, cloned numberplates and jerry cans filled with accelerants, the documents alleges.“It’s the methodology they have been using in the last probably a year and a half, two years around,” Weinstein said.Last week, organised crime investigators seized eight stolen cars from Fairfield East.