How slain cocaine drug lord dubbed ‘Australia’s Tony Soprano’ turned his suburban McMansion into a ‘Versace palace’ and painted the roof like it was the Sistine Chapel
- Alen Moradian named as cocaine kingpin shot in Bondi Junction
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The cocaine cartel boss executed in a gangland hit in Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was called Sydney’s ‘Tony Soprano’ by his own wife who warned him he would not ‘survive’ if he kept showing off.
Alen Moradian, 49, was shot in the underground carpark of an apartment building next door to Bondi Junction’s Holiday Inn hotel on Spring Street before 8.30am on Tuesday.
Alen Moradian had used the proceeds of the Golden Gun drug-smuggling operation to deck out his West Pennant Hills mansion in designer decor, complete with a Sistine Chapel-esque ceiling (pictured)
Moradian had allegedly spent $1 million in cash in Versace to kit out his ‘palace’
He was handed a 16-year jail sentence in 2011 for his role as boss of the ‘Golden Gun’ drug syndicate which imported and sole more than 300kg of cocaine into Australia 2005 and 2006.
Moradian, who had links to the Comanchero bikie gang, had used the proceeds of the drug-smuggling operation to deck out his West Pennant Hills mansion in designer decor.
At his trial a Versace salesman told the court Moradian ‘loved the Versace furniture and the excess’.
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It contained with a Sistine Chapel-esque ceiling, with police dubbing it the ‘Versace palace’.
Moradian, who had links to the Comanchero bikie gang, had used the proceeds of the drug-smuggling operation to deck out his West Pennant Hills mansion in designer decor
At his trial a Versace salesman told the court Moradian ‘loved the Versace furniture and the excess’
Moradian was handed a 16-year jail sentence in 2011 for his role as boss of the ‘Golden Gun’ drug syndicate which imported and sole more than 300kg of cocaine into Australia 2005 and 2006
But during his trial it emerged his wife, Natasha Moradian, had warned her husband against showing off.
‘Why do you just sit there and show off… do you see Tony Soprano doing that? He points it all off on a junior for a reason – to take the heat away from him,’ an email Ms Moradian wrote to her husband read.
‘You, on the other hand, want the attention, you get a big head, you love it. People like that won’t survive,’ the email read.
More to come.
