Bondi Junction shooting victim Alen Moradian’s home in West Pennant Hills with Sistine Chapel roof
How cocaine lord dubbed ‘Australia’s Tony Soprano’ turned his suburban McMansion into a ‘Versace palace’ and painted the roof as if it were the Sistine Chapel – before being brutally murdered in Sydney today
- Alen Moradian named as cocaine kingpin shot in Bondi Junction
- Gangster outfitted his West Pennant Hills home in Versace
The cocaine cartel boss who was executed in a gangland hit at Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was dubbed the “Tony Soprano” of Sydney by his own wife, who warned him he wouldn’t “survive” if he kept showing off .
Alen Moradian, 49, was gunned down before 8:30am on Tuesday in the underground car park of a block of flats next to Bondi Junction’s Holiday Inn hotel on Spring Street.
Alen Moradian had used the proceeds from the Golden Gun drug-smuggling operation to decorate his West Pennant Hills mansion in designer décor, complete with a Sistine Chapel-esque ceiling (pictured)
Moradian reportedly spent $1 million in cash on Versace to outfit his “palace.”
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2011 for his role as boss of the drug syndicate ‘Golden Gun’ which imported and trafficked more than 300 kg of cocaine in Australia in 2005 and 2006.
The syndicate reportedly paid $30,000 a kilo for cocaine in the US and sold it for $190,000 in Sydney.
Moradian, who had ties to the Comanchero biker gang, had used the proceeds from the drug smuggling to furnish his West Pennant Hills mansion with designer decor and antiques.
At his trial, a Versace salesperson told the court that Moradian “loved the Versace furniture and the surplus.”
The seller later told the cocaine queen that he should have lived in 16th century Italy.
Moradian’s lavish mansion contained a 440,000 Sistine Chapel-style ceiling with sky and angels. Police called the house a “Versace Palace.”
He was said to be thinking about an $850,000 Versace-decorated Lamborghini before police arrested him, according to the The Sydney Morning Herald.
Moradian, who had ties to the Comanchero biker gang, had used the proceeds of the drug smuggling to decorate his West Pennant Hills mansion in designer decor
During his trial, a Versace salesperson told the court that Moradian “loved the Versace furniture and the surplus”
Moradian was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2011 for his role as boss of the drug syndicate ‘Golden Gun’ which imported and trafficked more than 300 kg of cocaine in Australia in 2005 and 2006.
But it emerged during his trial that his wife, Natasha Moradian, had warned her husband not to show off.
“Why are you sitting there showing off… see Tony Soprano doing that? He points it all to a junior for a reason – to take the heat away from him,” read an email Ms Moradian wrote to her husband.
“You, on the other hand, want the attention, you get a big headline, you love it. Such people will not survive,” the email read.
More to come.