Blood Money: Bikies, terrorists and Middle Eastern gangs by Clive Small; Tom Gilling

Author:Clive Small; Tom Gilling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2011-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

The Lebanese crime network established by Frank Hakim under the protection of Lennie McPherson and George Freeman was predominantly Christian. Membership of the Danny Karam and Michael Kanaan gangs was also overwhelmingly Christian Lebanese. While Karam tolerated Muslims in his gang, he never hid his dislike and distrust of them, and this gradually became a source of tension within the gang. The Christian Lebanese domination was broken by the Telopea Street Boys and the Darwiche and Razzak crews. All three gangs were Muslim Lebanese but the networks within which they operated were a United Nations of crime, unrestricted by religion or race.

Mark Nicholls, a cook and major player in both the Hannoufs’ amphetamine network and the Razzaks’ drug and car rebirthing operations, was a Caucasian Australian. Nicholls’s partner, ‘Gary’, was another Caucasian Australian.

‘Mark’ and ‘Peter’ were amphetamine cooks for the Razzaks, while ‘Greg’ assisted the Razzaks in their frauds on finance companies. All three were Australian-born Caucasians.

‘Pit’, a Caucasian who lived in Sydney’s inner west, was an amphetamine cook and supplier to ‘Moukhtar’ and the Razzak gang.

‘Samir’, a Pakistani, provided the gangs with false identification papers, credit cards, Medicare cards and other papers including tax returns.

‘Jamie’ was a South American who also provided false identification documents and dealt in drugs.

‘James’ was Chinese. His brother ran a large Asian drug importing and trafficking syndicate that operated in Australia and dealt in ecstasy, ice, heroin and cocaine. ‘James’ used to work on the door of the Love Machine at Kings Cross in the late 1990s and later owned a brothel in Canberra.

‘George’, who was Greek by birth, helped the Hannoufs in frauds relating to car rebirthing.

‘Jeff’, a Greek from Liverpool, was a junkie who stole and stripped cars for ‘Moukhtar’ and, from time to time, helped in ‘Moukhtar’s insurance frauds.

‘Ali’ was a Turk who supplied fake driver’s licences.

‘Matt’, a Caucasian Australian, lived in Canberra and produced false identification and documentation for use in car rebirthing, as did an ‘Asian lady at Croydon Park’.

Then there was ‘Tony’, an Italian whose connections with the Philippines, Malaysia, China and Indonesia were invaluable in his work as a middle-man for an Asian amphetamine syndicate.

‘John’ was a Greek from Wollongong who was involved with the Hannoufs in drugs and car rebirthing. At times he was buying nearly one and a half kilograms of amphetamines a week from them.

Most of the runners for the Darwiche and Razzak drug networks, both male and female, were Caucasians.

The networks trading in firearms were no less diverse. Like the Telopea Street Boys and the Darwiche and Razzak crews, Karam and Kanaan had virtually unlimited access via at least eight suppliers to weapons ranging from handguns to military-style assault weapons.

Glenn Aranzamendez was a Philippine citizen who lived in the eastern Sydney suburb of Randwick and sold various types of handgun, along with explosives and hand grenades. His source was Cabramatta’s 5T gang. In late April 2000 Aranzamendez and a Vietnamese teenage gang member were arrested while planning an armed robbery. Aranzamendez was also charged with another Vietnamese gang member with insurance fraud.

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