Sydney's Occupied Territories: Mulsim Brothers For Life Organized Crime Gang Members arrested and charged with Murder of fellow Muslim criminal Joe Antoun

Alleged B4L gang members Navid Khalili, Kasim Ali Khan charged over murder of standover man Joe Antoun

Ben McClellan 
The Daily Telegraph
January 21,2014

TWO alleged Brothers For Life gang members have been charged over the murder of stand over man Joe Antoun who was shot in the doorway of his Strathfield home last month.

It is understood police will allege Navid Khalili, 25, shot the 50-year-old just before 10pm on December 16 at the Jersey Rd home, while Kasim Ali Khan, 24, was the driver for the alleged hit.

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Homicide detectives charged Navid Khalili at Silverwater Jail today after Ali Khan was arrested and charged in Parramatta last Thursday.

Khalili will face Burwood Local Court tomorrow, while Ali Khan appeared at Parramatta Local Court last week where he was refused bail to reappear on March 17 at Burwood Local Court.

Detectives will allege that both men are members of the Blacktown chapter of Brothers For Life.

Meanwhile, the younger brother of alleged Brothers For Life Blacktown chapter boss Farhad Qaumi has been charged for possessing weapons and supplying nearly two kilograms of illicit drugs.

Jamil Qaumi, 22, whose address was listed in court papers as Long Bay Jail and appeared via video link at Burwood Local Court today, faced five charges after Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad officers raided a Blacktown address last month.

Qaumi, who has been in custody since November 7, is charged with possessing a shortened 12 gauge Mossberg pump action shotgun and a Special Calibre .38 Smith and Wesson Pistol from November 5 to December 12.

He is also accused of supplying 1134.2 grams of the dance party drug 4-Bromo-2, 5-dimethoxyphenethylamine also known as "Nexus", 760.22 grams of 4-Bromo, 5-dimethoxyamphetamine also known as "Bromo DMA" and 150.85 grams of cocaine between November 5 and December 12.

Qaumi didn't apply for bail and it was formally refused to February 24 where he is due to appear for "other matters", the court papers stated.

The Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS) formed Strike Force Sitella to investigate a number of shootings during the second half of 2013.

Since the Strike Force was formed police said it has resulted in the arrest of eleven people facing 78 charges, as well as seizing three handguns, two shotguns and quantities of illicit drugs.

The Strike Force is investigating the following shootings:

The shooting of a man in Dunmore Street, Wentworthville on July 25

The shooting of a premises in Lignite Pl, Eagle Vale on August 2

The serious assault of a man on October 28 (specific location of assault not known)

The shooting of a man in Reillys Rd, Winston Hills on November 3

The shooting of a 13-year-old girl at Sunnyholt Rd, Blacktown, on November 4

The shooting of two men outside The Chokolatta cafe in Bankstown on November 7

The shooting of a man in Salisbury Rd, Guildford onNovember 27

The shooting of a man in Greenacre Rd, Greenacre, on November 29

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Life inside the BLF Gang 

Yoni Bashan, State Political Reporter
The Sunday Telegraph 
12 Jan 2014
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His gang, Brothers 4 Life, which he founded and directed from the state's most secure prison, had lost its way.
Its members were flying off the handle on drugs and alcohol and straying from Hamzy’s fundamentalist Muslim ideology.

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So in July 2012, he turned to underworld identity Farhad Qaumi, giving him instructions to clean up the gang and take it back to its roots.
Known as “The Afghan”, Qaumi and his cohorts had transformed themselves from the poor sons of immigrants living in Auburn to men who could hold their own with some of Sydney’s most wealthy, powerful and colourful identities.
On New Year’s Day, Qaumi was shot on board a luxury yacht as he rubbed shoulders with Kings Cross identity Adam Freeman, the son of organised crime figure George Freeman, and a number of other prominent figures, including some from the Italian underworld.
The party on board the Oscar II was believed to be a “send off” for Freeman, who is soon to be sentenced for his role in a $3 million commercial drug operation for which his co-accused was given a nine-year prison term.
The decision to recruit Qaumi to B4L would be the catalyst for a bloody and very public war for dominance within the group.
Instead of saving the gang, the decision would destroy it.

HIGH ROLLERS
THE Brothers 4 Life were an impenetrable force.
At the height of their presence in south western Sydney from late 2011, gang members were openly snubbing their noses at authorities, flashing their wealth and committing brutal, public acts of violence.
Unlike more sophisticated gangs, they were not interested in discretion.
Their Sydney leader, Mohammed Hamzy — nicknamed “Little Crazy” — got around in a $160,000 Mustang and kept a Range Rover in his driveway despite living in public housing and being on a disability support pension.
Another gang member sported an $80,000 Breitling watch, while others were regulars in the high-rollers room at The Star casino.
A 19-year-old newcomer was the registered owner of a luxury Audi Q7 even 

VICTIM A
AS homicide investigators worked the Amood murder, the Middle Eastern Organised Crime squad was running a separate operation to profile the Brothers 4 Life.
Only vague details were known about them.
Questions remained: How vast is their membership? How do they communicate? Who is in charge? What cars do they drive?
What police needed was a source — a luxury they didn’t have. This would change on February 9, 2013.
A 24-year-old drug runner working for the gang arrived at Bankstown Hospital after being shot twice in the legs.
He was a “good kid playing crook”, police later said; he was not cut out for the lifestyle. Police convinced him to change his life and turn informant.
Today he is a Crown witness known as Victim A. He told police everything.

ENEMIES WITHIN
AS the Amood investigation continued, Bassam Hamzy was making plans from prison.
He had formed an alliance with Farhad Qaumi, who was on remand for a murder charge that was later dropped.

The officer who investigated Qaumi, Justin Harris, alleges he was recruited by Hamzy for a specific purpose.

“We became aware that he (Qaumi) and his family were developing links with Brothers 4 Life,” Mr Harris, now out of the NSW Police Force, said.
“He was recruited because of their internal conflicts.
“He (Bassam Hamzy) wanted to clean the gang up because he’d thought they’d lost their true calling in relation to their religion.”
When Qaumi, was acquitted, he re-entered western Sydney and set up the Blacktown B4L chapter, stacking it with fellow Afghans.

Police believe that among them were his two brothers, Mumtaz, 29, and Jamil, 21.
A power struggle emerged between the Blacktown and the Bankstown chapter, controlled by Hamzy’s cousin, over a lucrative Blacktown drug territory.
One version of events is that a man controlling the drug turf, receiving protection from the Bankstown crew, was being stood over by Blacktown B4L members.

It prompted a series of shootings and retaliation, causing the gang to cannibalise itself. Instead of fighting other gangs, they were killing and maiming themselves.
On October 31, the game changed with the death of Mahmoud Hamzy outside his
cousin Mohammed’s home at Revesby Heights.

Near nightly reprisals followed. At one stage, a 13-yearold girl became collateral damage when a shotgun was fired into her home, targeting her brother.
Police, behind the scenes, began using the rift as leverage and were planning their own attack.

On November 7, homicide detectives and officers from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS) mounted co-ordinated arrests which knocked out the Bankstown chapter and a portion of the Blacktown membership, including Qaumi’s younger brother Jamil.
After 12 months, Mohammed Hamzy was charged over the murder of Yehye Amood while members of his senior leadership were charged over the kneecapping of Ali.
The move meant the end of B4L’s mother chapter at Bankstown — a major win for police.
The matter of Qaumi, however, still had to be resolved.

THE ROSE BAY WHARF SHOOTING
IT was a who’s who of gangland characters.
There was Farhad Qaumi, his brother Mumtaz and another man, Fawad Bari, an alleged
member of their Blacktown B4L chapter.

They were there on the Oscar II yacht with a bevy of girls and, to the surprise of many, a small group of Italians, all to “send off” Kings Cross identity Adam Freeman. Freeman, who last September pleaded guilty to drugs charges in court, is awaiting sentence and reliable sources have confirmed he was on the boat and the party was in his honour.
The night was going well until the vessel attempted to dock at Rose Bay.
A hidden gunman opened fire, hitting Qaumi in the shoulder as he sat with his back to a window.




It can now be revealed those behind the hit are suspected of being on board the yacht at the time and had been using social media to coordinate with the gunman on dry land.

It’s understood the owners of the prestigious yacht are now considering changing its name due to the incident.

THE ARRESTS
ON Wednesday, police swooped on Blacktown chapter boss Qaumi and effectively brought an end to the Brothers 4 Life gang.

His arrest, along with his brother Mumtaz, was described by officers as “cutting off the head of the snake” of the gang.
Both were charged with directing the activities of a criminal group, along with drugs and firearm possession offences.

It was MEOCS officers from Strike Force Sitella who made the arrests — they had been investigating the Blacktown chapter and six shootings, plus an assault, since mid-last year.
Five guns have been seized and ballistics has already linked some to other crimes, MEOCS commander Deb Wallace said.

Questions remain as to whether recent unsolved hits will match the weapons, including the murder of Joe Antoun at Strathfield in December, the near-identical slaying of his business partner Vasko Boskovski in July, or the B4L-linked murder of Mahmoud Hamzy at Revesby Heights.
With the bosses of both Bankstown and Blacktown chapters behind bars, the future of the group appears over.