A bikie associate gave two men who had just brutally gunned down a 23-year-old access to his mother's unit complex to stash their getaway vehicle.
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Vincent Bill Lambroglou, 43, pleaded guilty on Monday to being an accessory to murder, participating in a criminal group and dealing with the suspected proceeds of crime, after police found him with more than $560,000 cash.
Court documents revealed Lambroglou assisted two men who had just gunned down Rami Iskander in a hail of up to 20 bullets, during a spate of gang-related shootings across Sydney.
He also admitted possessing and counting large amounts of cash for the Comanchero bikies.
Iskander died from multiple gunshot wounds in the early hours of May 14, 2022. He was the nephew of Ahmad crime family boss, Mahmoud 'Brownie' Ahmad, who was also fatally shot just weeks earlier.
Lambroglou admitted fixing "clone" licence plates to a black Audi 4WD used in Iskander's shooting, and placing two other vehicles, a silver Toyota RAV4 and blue Hyundai i30, to be used as getaway vehicles.
He maintains he was not aware at the time the vehicles were going to be used in a murder.
Later however, by which time Lambroglou was aware of the men's involvement in the murder, he granted them access to his mother's unit complex to stash the final getaway car.
The final vehicle - the Hyundai - was later removed from the complex and destroyed to help cover the men's tracks.
According to a document of agreed facts, Lambroglou's wife's cousin, George Lergou, was a senior member of the Comancheros.
Prior to Iskander's death, Omar and Tarek Zahed, the latter of whom was a national sergeant at arms with the Comancheros, were also shot killing Omar and leaving Tarek with serious injuries.
Around two days before Iskander's shooting, Lambroglou attended Sydney Prestige Auto Body in Marrickville, which is operated by Jamal Salameh, a "very close associate" of Tarek Zahed, according to the agreed facts.
Lambroglou was arrested in October 2022, at a property in southern Sydney.
A search of the property uncovered a Nike bag containing 49 bundles of $10,000 cash, as well as a money counting machine, roughly a gram and a half of cocaine and a hydraulic jack commonly used for compressing large amounts of prohibited drugs.
Police found a further $64,800 at another property used by Lambroglou.
Australian Associated Press
