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Breakthrough in alleged execution of one of Australia’s top crime bosses as inmate is accused of murdering Bilal Hamze more than a year after he was shot outside the restaurant
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A man has been charged with murder of crime boss Bilal Hamze in Sydney’s CBD.
Hamze was shot in a hail of bullets on Bridge St in Sydney’s CBD in June last year by a man in a black Audi.
The 34-year-old mobster was treated at the scene before being taken to St Vincent’s Hospital, where he later died.
The Audi was later found burnt out in Northwood, on Sydney’s north coast.
After extensive investigation by the Homicide Division of the State Crime Command, Samuel John Rokomaqisa, 32, was arrested Tuesday at Silverwater Prison and charged with murder.
Bilal Hamze was shot dead on Bridge St in Sydney’s CBD last June after leaving a Japanese restaurant with a young woman. Scene recorded above
Police allege that Rokomaqisa was inside a black Audi before 10:30 p.m. on June 17, 2021, from which shots were fired, beating and killing Hamze, who had just walked out of the Kid Kyoto restaurant.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and took him to St. Vincent’s Hospital, but the doctors were unable to save his life.
Rokomaqisa was remanded in custody on unrelated charges and will appear in court at Downing Center later Tuesday.
Last week, police said Sydney underworld figures had registered stolen cars in the names of unwitting people before using the vehicles to commit heinous crimes.
Police investigating the murder of Bilal Hamze and a plot to murder his brother Ibrahem Hamze in northern Sydney last year said they had recovered cars they believed had been used in both incidents.
They appealed to the public to help locate a silver Ford Territory with registration AQ 58 ES.
Earlier in September, it was revealed that a trail of luxury vehicles may be the key to catching the alleged killer.
New CCTV vision released by NSW police showed the black Audi believed to have been used in the drive-by shooting of Bilal Hamze who was driving alongside a top-of-the-line Mercedes that was allegedly later used in a botched assassination attempt on his brother Ibrahem .