A milk bar linked to underworld figure Suleiman “Sam” Abdulrahim was the target of an arson attack in Melbourne’s west that destroyed an innocent family’s neighbouring business, it can be revealed.
An underworld source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the firebombing was targeted at Abdulrahim, a former Mongols outlaw motorcycle bikie who has reinvented himself as a boxer called “The Punisher”.Abdulrahim and properties associated with him have been repeatedly targeted in Melbourne’s year-long “tobacco wars”.
Last month, police advised Abdulrahim against fighting in a boxing match planned for the Furlan Club in Thornbury before “We’ve treated these incidents as linked and that is purely due to persons who’ve engaged with those businesses to undertake events at those places,” Detective Inspector Graham Banks, from Victoria Police’s illicit tobacco taskforce, said at the time.