Bondi Junction shooting victim Alen Moradian’s West Pennant Hills home with Sistine Chapel roof

The cocaine cartel boss who was executed in a gangland hit at Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was described as Australia’s ‘Tony Soprano’ by his own wife, who warned him he wouldn’t ‘survive’ if he stayed show 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. The shooter or shooters remain a fugitive.

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 sold more than 300 kg of cocaine in Australia in 2005 and 2006.

The syndicate, which reportedly paid $30,000 a kilo for cocaine in the US and sold it for $190,000 in Sydney, got its name after police found a gold-plated .357 Magnum Desert Eagle handgun during one of the raids.

Moradian, nicknamed “Fathead” and associated with the Comanchero biker gang, used the proceeds from the drug smuggling operation to furnish his West Pennant Hills mansion with designer decor and antiques.

At his trial, a Versace salesman told the court that Moradian “loved the Versace furniture and the excess,” and police later referred to it as a “Versace Palace.”

The seller later told the cocaine queen that he should have lived in 16th-century Italy because of his lavish taste.

Moradian’s mansion featured a $440,000 Sistine Chapel-esque ceiling depicting sky and angels.

He was said to be thinking about an $850,000 Versace-decorated Lamborghini before police arrested him, according to a The Sydney Morning Herald report from that time.

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”

The ‘Golden Gun’ syndicate, which reportedly paid $30,000 a kilo for cocaine in the US and sold it for $190,000 in Sydney, got its name after police seized a gold-plated .357 Magnum Desert Eagle pistol during one of the raids. had found

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.

Her eerie warning, sent over a decade ago, came true on Tuesday.