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A Sydney lawyer who survived a gangland shooting has been arrested and charged over an alleged attempted drug importation.
Australian Federal Police officers on Tuesday arrested Sylvan Singh at his West Ryde home and charged with four counts of attempting to import a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.
Parramatta lawyer Sylvan Singh has been charged over alleged drug importation.Credit: RedLine Legal
Singh had been on bail for an alleged kidnapping, during which a man was held for ransom and tortured.
In September, Singh was charged with two counts of knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group, wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, supplying prohibited drugs on an ongoing basis, supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, and taking or detaining a person in company with intent to hold them for ransom over his alleged role in the kidnapping at Granville last year.
In May, Singh survived a shooting linked to an ongoing feud within the Alameddine network that was sparked when a senior member, Masood Zakaria, defected to form a rival crime syndicate. The court heard Singh has links to the Alameddine network during his bail application in September.
His associate, underworld figure Dawood Zakaria, initially survived a gunshot wound to the head, but died in hospital several days later, as NSW Police launched Taskforce Falcon to combat the violence linked to the Alameddine feud.
Singh was injured when the car he was travelling in was allegedly targeted in a gangland shooting in May.Credit: Angus Dalton
Several people have since been charged with the joint criminal enterprise murder of Zakaria and the attempted murder of Singh.
Singh’s charges over the Granville kidnapping are not related to the feud, or the May shooting.
At the time of last year’s kidnapping, Singh was working as a solicitor at his family’s Parramatta legal firm, Redline Legal.
Singh was refused police bail to face court on Wednesday.
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