Several alleged members of one of Australia's most notorious bikie gangs have been arrested over the shooting of two brothers near the prime minister's electorate office.
Police allege the July 2023 attack, in which two men were shot in a hair salon on a busy suburban strip, was linked to a fatal shooting weeks earlier.
The shooting at Marrickville in Sydney's inner-west took place on a Friday afternoon, metres from a police station and the electorate office of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
A 33-year-old was shot in the buttocks and a 20-year-old in the chest.
Six men were arrested in early morning raids on Thursday, with police seizing outlaw motorcycle gang vests, cash, jewellery, drugs and vehicles.
Three men faced court on Friday while a 42-year-old man was arrested on Queensland's Gold Coast and extradited to NSW.
Police allege he sourced the vehicles used in the attack.
The men were arrested over links to a criminal syndicate identified by police investigating the shooting, with commercial drug supply and kidnapping conspiracies among their alleged activities.
None of the men arrested are accused of pulling the trigger but police said they were confident they were closing in on the mastermind behind the attack.
Those arrested included a 31-year-old Dulwich Hill real estate agent, charged with commercial drug supply.
NSW State Crime Command’s Criminal Groups Squad Detective Superintendent Jason Box said the man was allegedly filmed on a hidden camera and is accused of aiding the bikies with their alleged drug operations at an apartment he managed.
"He's provided the premises for these offenders to conduct their criminal activity, to store drugs and equipment in a manner they thought was safe and undetectable," he told reporters on Friday.
One man, 47, faced Burwood Local Court on Friday accused of being involved in a joint criminal enterprise planning and conducting the shooting, but is not the alleged gunman, police said.
He has also been charged with commercial drug supply, kidnapping conspiracy, proceeds of crime, directing the activities of a criminal group, intimidation, and a domestic violence-related common assault.
“We’ll allege that he was communicating movement, the names of people that would be the targets, the vehicles, utilising people to obtain those vehicles that were used in the offence and he directed them towards that goal of shooting in Marrickville,” Det Supt Box said.
While police raided properties across Sydney and the Gold Coast, detectives searched bushland and waterways, investigating links between the Marrickville attack and an earlier fatal shooting.
Marvin Oraiha, a 24-year-old alleged associate of the outlaw motorcycle gang some of the men arrested on Thursday are allegedly members of, was shot in his car at Elizabeth Hills in Sydney's west in May 2023.
Several men have also been arrested over that shooting, which is thought to have sparked other incidents as part of an escalating gang war.
