A relative of Sydney’s most prominent crime family has been charged with child grooming offences after he allegedly tried to have sexual conversations with a teenage girl online, unaware he was actually communicating with police.
Detectives attached to Strike Force Raptor arrested Mostapha Alameddine on Wednesday after a two-month investigation culminated in a high-profile raid on his home in western Sydney.
NSW Police Detective Inspector Brad Abdy said Mr Alameddine had allegedly been using a social media platform to attempt to groom a 14-year-old girl online.
“They sent a number of sexually explicit conversations and sexually explicit images,” he said.
“That 39-year-old does have links to other people who are involved in organised crime,” he claimed.
He also alleged more generally that “these people know no boundaries, they operate across jurisdictions”. #people