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A second man has been arrested and charged by police in connection with a high-profile Sydney underworld murder earlier this year.
Lee Paul Lambroglou, 29, was charged on Wednesday for his alleged involvement after the fatal shooting of Rami Iskander at his Belmore home on Knox Street early in the morning of May 14 this year.
Mr Lambroglou was arrested by police on Wednesday morning at around 10:30am on York Street in Sydney and taken to Day Street Police Station, before being charged with accessory after the fact to murder and conceal serious indictable offence.
He was refused bail and is set to appear in Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday where police will allege in court that he assisted those in the incident following the murder of Mr Iskander.
The 23-year-old was found by emergency services with gunshot wounds, treated at the scene by paramedics and died shortly after. Mr Lambroglou’s older brother, Vincent Bill Lambroglou, 42 was arrested at an Oatley property five months later in October as part of ongoing inquiries and charged for allegedly organising and preparing the getaway cars used by the gunmen who shot Iskander dead.
Mr Lambroglou remains before the courts.
Police are continuing their investigation under Task Force Erebus into Iskander’s death, as well as several other fatal shootings and criminal activities by organised crime networks in Sydney.
Iskander’s death was the third fatal shooting linked to Sydney’s gang war in as many weeks at the time, with the other two victims including his step-uncle and notorious underworld figure Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad and rival Comanchero bikie Omar Zahed.
Iskander was not an Ahmad by blood but became involved with the family crime network after his mother remarried.
Iskander’s role in the notorious and insular family has been the source of intense underworld speculation following his death.
Police investigating his shooting in the driveway of his Belmore home have been trying to decipher the reason for the execution of the 23-year-old, who was not a direct blood relative of the Ahmads but was buried beside Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad.
Police, as part of investigations, charted Iskander’s life as a young tradie from Belmore to his final breaths in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old child.
He was the stepson of Yasser Ahmad, the younger brother of “Brownie” Ahmad, after his mother remarried. There is no suggestion his mother is involved in any wrongdoing.
