By day, Abuzar Sultani was a master’s student in his mid-twenties at an Australian university and ran a business in the construction industry.
But secretly, this man known as “Abu” or “Boss” within sophisticated criminal organizations leads a double life, as a ruthless killer and one of the most feared figures in the city’s underworld. I was sending .
Sultani, 35, has now confessed to his fifth murder, all committed within a three-year period, making him one of Australia’s most prolific killers in history.
On Tuesday, the former Burwood Rebellion leader turned independent gangster and hitman pleaded guilty in the New South Wales Supreme Court to the murder of former bikie gang member Mark Easter more than eight years ago. .
Ms Easter went missing and her body was discovered by city workers on June 23, 2015, dumped in bushland in Sydney’s northern suburbs.
The 37-year-old was shot four times in the back of the head with a .22 caliber pistol, prosecutor David Scully told the court.
He was last seen jumping into a white van outside his home in Little Bay three days ago.
Sultani is scheduled to go to trial over the shooting this week before presenting his plea, with a verdict to be handed down at a later date.
This is the fifth time he has faced murder charges, having previously pleaded guilty to killing four other men between 2013 and 2016.
Easter’s murder is the last charge Sultani now faces after nearly eight years of court proceedings, many of which were blocked from media coverage.
Mr Sultani is already serving three life sentences without parole for the murders of Michael Davey, Mehmet Yilmaz and mafia figure Pasquale Barbaro, who were all shot dead by Mr Sultani within months of each other in 2016. He has served consecutive terms in prison.
Supreme Court judges described the attacks as a “reckless series of murders” and found they were carried out either to enhance the reputation of the Sultani crew or, in Barbaro’s case, for personal reasons.
In the two years since, he has been sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison for the bashing murder of low-level drug dealer Nicola Srubin and 28 years in prison for a number of offenses including selling and possessing firearms, supplying drugs and directing a criminal network. Ta. .
Mr Sultani, who grew up as the third child in a working-class family in Sydney’s west, was described as a “clearly intelligent” person who should have made a reasonable contribution to the community.
He told a forensic psychologist that he became involved with felons as a teenager while in prison for armed robbery, and later ventured into the underworld when he started working in the construction industry.
Before his arrest and unmasking as a gangster, Sultani was studying for a master’s degree in business administration at Macquarie University and was a director of a labor employment company.
At the same time, his group stashed weapons, ballistic vests, thousands of rounds of ammunition, drugs, and stolen vehicles in safe houses throughout the city in furtherance of serious criminal activities.
Mr Sultani’s double life came crashing down in November 2016 when police swooped in to dismantle his gang, installing hidden cameras and listening devices in cars and monitoring the group for months. Ta.
Judge Peter Hamill last year convicted the killer over the death of Mr Surbin, who died from severe head injuries after being severely beaten on Mr Sultani’s orders.
Judge Hamill said the gangster, 27, was a successful master’s student at the time of his arrest.
“There is a lot to be said about this young man and his transformation from a shy, quiet and intelligent middle child from a conservative, hard-working family to a notorious murderer and gangster,” Judge Hamill said. Ta.
“That’s a sad waste of a life.”
In a separate judgment in December, the New South Wales District Court heard Sultani reflected on how “ruthless and ruthless” he had been during his criminal career.
As he spends the rest of his days behind bars, he had hoped to get out of the state’s highest-security prison and attend a course.
