An alleged associate of the notorious Alameddine organised crime network has been arrested at a home in western Sydney and charged with child grooming.
Mostapha Alameddine, 39, who is related to members of the Middle Eastern syndicate of the same name, was taken into custody on Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to groom what he thought was a 14-year-old girl online.
NSW Police said interstate officers assumed the online identity of a teenage girl and allegedly had sexually explicit conversations with Alameddine where he sent and requested explicit photos.
Alleged associate of the notorious Alameddine Middle Eastern organised crime network is arrested after allegedly trying to groom a child for sex.
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The investigation was handed over to the State Crime Command’s Raptor Squad, which carried out a raid at a home in Merrylands and allegedly seized drugs and electronic devices.
After Alameddine’s arrest he was taken to Granville Police Station, where he was charged with “use carriage service-groom under 16 years of age for sex”, “use carriage service-send indecent material to under 16 years of age”, “use carriage service-procure under the age of 16 sex with another” and “possess prohibited drug”.
Alameddine, who works in the traffic control and security industries, was refused bail after facing court on Wednesday, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The court heard he allegedly sent a photo of his genitals and said “lol, you’re a baby” after the person he was speaking with told him they were a 14-year-old girl. He then allegedly requested nude photographs, and tried to move the conversation from the anonymous chatroom to WhatsApp.
Local Court Judge Estelle Hawdon called Alameddine’s alleged offending “brazen” while denying him bail, and said while there was “no actual harm” to a child, the matter was still serious.
“The fact that you were on this chat room and engaged in this explicit conversation and did not resile from it at all is really concerning,” she said.
Detective Inspector Brad Abdy said police allege Alameddine was an associate of the organised crime network, which has been involved in a series of underworld conflicts with rival Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander and Vietnamese gangs in Sydney in recent years.
Mostapha is the cousin of crime boss Rafat Alameddine – one of Australia’s most wanted men – and the cousin of Rachad Alameddine.
He will face court again in September.
Header image: Left, right, Alameddine being arrested (NSW Police).
