Comanchero bikie heavyweight Tarek Zahed has been arrested in Sydney’s east over an alleged murder, just months after he survived a spray of bullets that killed his brother in a gangland shooting.
A NSW Police spokesman said Zahed, 42, was arrested by the tactical operations unit when they stopped his car on New South Head Road in Edgecliff at about 4.50pm on Sunday.
Footage obtained by Nine News shows police fired tactical rubber bullets into Zahed’s BMW on the busy eastern suburbs road, shattering his windows, before pulling him out of the car.
Zahed was then taken to Surry Hills Police Station, where he was charged over the alleged 2014 murder of 29-year-old Youssef Assoum in Bankstown.
Zahed, a married father of one, survived a targeted shooting at Auburn’s BodyFit gym in May this year despite being struck by 10 bullets in the head, body and legs.
His brother Omar, 39, went into cardiac arrest and died after suffering gunshot wounds to his stomach, arms and legs.
Zahed is the national sergeant-at-arms of the Comanchero bikie gang, while his brother Omar also had links to the gang. Both had been warned by police they were marked men.
National president of the Comanchero, Allan Meehan, posted a picture with Zahed on Instagram last week alongside the caption: “Welcome back tarek “hard2kill” zahed”.
It was the first public image of Zahed to appear since the shooting.
The Comanchero heavyweight is well known to police. He was detained by authorities in Lebanon last year after NSW Police sent an alert through global law-enforcement body Interpol.
Comanchero member Tarek Zahed (centre) and his brother Omar were shot at an Auburn gym earlier this year.Credit:Kate Geraghy
Police believe he is a close associate of senior Comanchero figure Mark Buddle, who was deported to Australia from Turkey earlier this month over a $40 million cocaine seizure.
The Supreme Court of NSW granted police a crime prevention order in December last year, after finding that Zahed posed an ongoing threat of carrying out serious offences.
He was prohibited from wearing gang colours in NSW, and was required to provide police with his vehicle registration, was only allowed one mobile phone and could not have more than $10,000 in his bank account.
With Jenny Noyes and Sally Rawsthorne
correction
An earlier version of this article said Mark Buddle was thought to be in Lebanon. That is incorrect. He was deported to Australia earlier this month.
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