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News.com.au
6 days ago
- News.com.au
‘Well organised': Shocking details emerge of alleged murder of Zivan Radmanovic in Bali
Chilling new details of the alleged murder of a Melbourne man in Bali earlier this month have emerged, including the weapon used in the alleged attack. Australians Zivan Radmanovic and Sanar Ghanim were shot shortly after midnight on June 13 at a villa in Bali's south, in what is suspected to be linked to the Melbourne underworld crime syndicate. Mr Radmanovic died at the scene and Mr Ghanim suffered injuries to his leg. After a five-day manhunt for the alleged 'executers', three men, Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 27, Darcy Francesco Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 22, were arrested in connection to the shooting. Bali Police Chief Inspector General Daniel Adityajaya told reporters on Thursday the alleged crime was 'well organised'. Inspector General Adityajaya alleged the trio, known as the Bali 3, had 'planned the act (for) quite long', accusing them of playing key roles in the alleged murder. He alleged 27-year-old Jenson was the mastermind of the attack, booking the villa where the shooting occurred, and supplying the tools, including a hammer to break into the villa. He is also accused of providing transportation for the other alleged offenders, renting a white Toyota Fortuner and a Suzuki XL7, as well as purchasing ferry tickets from Java to Bali. Police allege 22-year-old Coskun and 26-year-old Tupou were the shooters in the attack, with Tupou reportedly purchasing the firearm and disposing of a motorbike used as a getaway vehicle. Coskun is alleged to have helped dispose of the vehicle and purchased clothing for the attack. During the investigation into the alleged murder, police recovered several pieces of evidence in the villa, including two bullet fragments, six bullet casings and 38 bullet shards. Police also claimed to have found the gun used in the alleged attack, which was dumped alongside two magazines with bullets and an empty magazine in a river in Tabanan about 700m from the villa. In a press conference on Thursday, police showed off the weapon in an evidence bag, as well as the sledgehammer allegedly used to break and enter the villa. Police were able to identify the trio by tracking the purchase of the sledgehammer to a store, later linking them to their hired getaway vehicles. Police are yet to establish a motive behind the alleged attack, however believe the men have links to the Melbourne underworld. 'We are still investigating their motive and continue cross-checking the facts,' Inspector General Adityajaya said. If the trio are charged and convicted under Article 340, they could face the death penalty.
Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Read the heartbreaking note from the wife of 'best dad in the world' gunned down in Bali - as mum-of-six breaks her silence after he was shot dead in a suspected gangland hit
The grieving widow of the Australian gunned down in a suspected gangland hit in Bali has broken her silence to reveal her heartbreak at telling her six children their 'loving dad' is dead. Zivan 'Stipe' Radmanovic, 35, was shot dead while Sanar Ghanim, 34, was injured but survived the attack which is believed to be linked to Melbourne's underworld feuds. Radmanovic died in front of his wife Jazmyn Gourdeas, 30, in the toilet of the rented villa where they were staying in Munggu, in the Badung Regency in Bali's south. He had 175 Australian court appearances to his name when he died, while Ghanim also has long links to organised crime in Melbourne. But Ms Gourdeas has now spoken out for the first time almost two weeks after the attack to reveal her family's grief, with a plea for kindness in 'this tragic time'. 'This is a tragedy,' she said in a handwritten note read out by her Balinese lawyer. 'Please be more kind, we have six children. 'My husband was a loving man and the best dad in the world - now I have the unimaginable task of going home to tell them that he's no longer here.' She also asked for privacy while she and her family grieve the death of her husband. Her plea comes after Daily Mail Australia revealed her sister's own links to the underworld and another gangland execution less than six months ago. Daniella Gourdeas was linked on social media to slain Melbourne gangster Sam 'The Punisher' Abdulrahim. She and Jazmyn's brother Dimitri had arrived in Bali with the couple to celebrate Jazmyn's 30th birthday just two days before he was shot dead. Abdulrahim was shot dead in Melbourne in an ambush by a gangland hit squad, but had been a regular on her social media, frequently praising her photographs online. He was brutally executed in January as he drove out of an underground car park at the Preston apartment block where he was secretly living. Five months later, she was a key witness to her brother-in-law's execution in Bali. Daniella told Bali Police how she woke up as the gunmen burst into Ghanim's bedroom and she heard an 'explosion'. Daniella Gourdeas has links to slain gangster Sam 'The Punisher' Abdulrahim (pictured) She said she then heard more gunshots and a window being smashed as the hit squad ran from room to room in the villa before she fled for her life. 'The witness [Daniella] ran out of the villa where she saw two motorcycles [or scooters] parked outside while she heard more gunshots,' added the police officer. '[She ran to] the main road where she asked for help.' By the time bystanders had calmed Daniella down and taken her back to the villa, police were already on the scene. Her sister Jazmyn had also been asleep at the villa when she awoke to the sound of her husband screaming around 12.15am. The mother-of-six cowered behind bedsheets as a man in an orange jacket and an accomplice opened fire on her husband in the bathroom, she told police. Shortly afterwards, she heard further gunshots and then heard Ghanim screaming from a separate room after he was gunned down in his bedroom. With her husband already dead, Ms Gourdeas tried to stem Ghanim's bleeding until emergency services arrived. After the shooting, the suspects allegedly travelled across Indonesia in a bid to flee the country Ghanim was discharged from hospital in a wheelchair last week, nursing a bandaged leg. Bali authorities say they have all three survivors under close watch. Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, the stepdaughter of notorious Australian drug trafficker Carl Williams, who was murdered in Victoria's Barwon jail in 2010. But Ghanim's long-standing association with Melbourne's criminal underworld goes deeper than just family ties. In 2014, he was jailed following the shooting of fellow associate Serkan Kala after a dispute at a gym escalated. He and a co-accused pleaded guilty. On Wednesday, Bali detectives arrested three Australian men Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 37, Darcy Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, after an intense five-day police manhunt. Jenson was arrested at Jakarta Airport as he tried to get through an e-passport reader to board a flight to Singapore and then on to Cambodia. Tupou and Coskun managed to make it to Cambodia but were identified by Interpol who arrested them in Phnom Penh and flew them back to Indonesia. Detectives said a sledgehammer, believed to have been supplied by Coskun, was used to smash down the door of the villa moments before the alleged attack. Badung Police Chief Arif Batubara said the discarded hammer was discovered by officers at the entrance of the villa and quickly became a key piece of evidence. 'Starting from there, we launched an investigation into the barcode on the hammer's purchase,' he told reporters during a press conference on Saturday. Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene. It comes after Bali Police revealed on Wednesday how the gang allegedly fled across Indonesia after the shooting, escaping the scene on motorbikes before switching cars twice on an 18-hour, 1200km getaway to Jakarta. Detectives revealed the suspects were first traced through Tupou's distinctive tattoos which were first picked up on CCTV as he bought cigarettes near the villa where the attack unfolded. The tattoos were clearly visible in pictures of Tupou as he was being pushed in a wheelchair through Jakarta Airport after he was deported back to Indonesia. Tupou has a combination of traditional Tongan artwork inked onto his skin and the 676-international telephone dialling code for Tonga in huge numbers down his shin. Detectives are now working with forensic experts as they pore over evidence from the crime scene, including blood samples, the sledgehammer, bullet casings and projectiles, and face coverings. Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene The crime squad is also looking at more CCTV footage, a vehicle and travel history, said a police spokesman. The three can be held without charge for months while police investigate the killing. Once they present their dossier of evidence, the three will be handed over to a prosecutor who will then send them to Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison. They will then face a court hearing to be formally charged, and kept at Kerobokan throughout their trial until a verdict and possible sentence. They are being investigated for premeditated murder which under Indonesian law can carry the death sentence. The Bali attack comes after exiled Melbourne tobacco overlord Kazem 'Kaz' Hamad is suspected by Australian underworld figures of ordering the hit on Abdulrahim. Abdulrahim reportedly went into hiding in May 2024 after narrowly escaping an ambush outside his northern suburbs home, where gunmen shot at him 17 times. In his last weeks alive, Abdulrahim was said to have become 'something of a ghost' as he moved between Melbourne, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. It's understood Abdulrahim flew into Melbourne the day before his as-yet unsolved murder. Hamad rules his criminal empire from the Middle East with violence and extortion and underworld sources say the ruthless kingpin has the means to order an offshore hit. Abdulrahim's dwindling allies were believed to have gone into hiding themselves after his murder.
News.com.au
24-06-2025
- News.com.au
Bali shooting victim widow Jazmyn Gourdeas gives heartbreaking update
The wife of an Australian who was gunned down while holidaying in Bali has delivered a heartbreaking letter about the man she described as 'the best dad in the world'. Jazmyn Gourdeas allowed family lawyer Sary Latief to read out a handwritten letter at a press conference on Tuesday, in which she memorialised her husband and thanked the Indonesian police for all their help and support. 'My husband was a loving man and the best dad in the world, now I have the unimaginable (task) of going home to tell (the kids) that he's no longer here,' the letter read. 'Please respect our privacy so we can grieve his loss.' Addressing the media, Ms Latief said Ms Gourdeas was 'not coping very well with the tragedy'. '[She] doesn't have the appetite to eat, she's lost a lot of weight, she looks very pale, she's really worried, she wants to go home.' Ms Latief said Ms Gourdeas' mother and brother had travelled to Indonesia to support her. Ms Gourdeas was a witness to the savage alleged killing, which took place when three men allegedly breached the entrance of a villa the couple had rented in celebration of her 30th birthday. While Ms Gourdeas hid from the attackers, Mr Radmanovic was allegedly badly beaten, before being shot and killed. Another man, Sanar Ghanim, was shot during the ordeal, but managed to escape. Ms Gourdeas is now a single mother of six children aged between 9 months and 13 years. A fundraiser has been launched for her by close family friend Jamie Lee. Ms Lee said the 'sudden and devastating loss' had shattered Ms Gourdeas, and the weight of single motherhood would begin to weigh on her without appropriate support. 'While only married for just under a year, the couple were deeply in love and shared a family together,' Ms Lee said. 'Now Jazmyn faces the unimaginable challenge of caring for their large family alone, including three children diagnosed with epilepsy who require ongoing medication, therapies and frequent medical appointments.' The alleged premeditated murder happened on June 14 inside a villa that Mr Radmanovic and his wife had booked for their stay in Bali. The Indonesian Police have arrested three Australian men in connection with the alleged slaughter. 'We are certain these three are the perpetrators. They are Australian nationals according to their passports,' Bali Police Chief Daniel Adityajaya said. According to Indonesian law, the men could face the death penalty if they are convicted of murder.
Daily Mail
23-06-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Bombshell twist as fourth victim of Bali gangland hit is linked to SECOND Melbourne underworld murder just months earlier
A fourth person who escaped a gangland hit in Bali that left one man dead has been identified and has links to slain Melbourne gangster Sam 'The Punisher' Abdulrahim. Gunmen shot dead Zivan 'Stipe' Radmanovic, 35, while Sanar Ghanim, 34, was injured but survived the attack believed to be linked to Melbourne's gangland feuds. Radmanovic, who had 175 court appearances to his name, died in front of his wife in the villa toilet, while Ghanim was rushed to Kuta's BIMC Hospital with multiple injuries. Radmanovic and his wife Jazmyn Gourdeas had joined Ghanim in Bali just two days before the execution to celebrate her 30th birthday with her brother Dimitri and sister Daniella. But it can now be revealed Daniella has links to Abdulrahim, who was shot dead in Melbourne in an ambush by an underworld hit squad in January. He was a regular on her social media account, frequently praising her photographs online before his brutal execution as he drove out of an underground car park at the Preston apartment block where he was secretly living. Five months later, she was a key witness to her brother-in-law's execution in Bali. Daniella told Bali Police how she woke up as the gunmen burst into Ghanim's bedroom and she heard an 'explosion'. She said she then heard more gunshots and a window being smashed as the hit squad ran from room to room in the villa before she fled for her life. 'The witness [Daniella] ran out of the villa where she saw two motorcycles [or scooters] parked outside while she heard more gunshots,' added the police officer. '[She ran to] the main road where she asked for help.' By the time bystanders had calmed Daniella down and taken her back to the villa, police were already on the scene. Her sister Jazmyn had also been asleep at the villa when she awoke to the sound of her husband screaming around 12.15am. The mother-of-six cowered behind bedsheets as a man in an orange jacket and an accomplice opened fire on her husband in the bathroom, she told police. Shortly afterwards, she heard further gunshots and then heard Ghanim screaming from a separate room after he was gunned down in his bedroom. With her husband already dead, Ms Gourdeas tried to stem Ghanim's bleeding until emergency services arrived. Ghanim was discharged from hospital in a wheelchair last week, nursing a bandaged leg. Bali authorities say they have all three survivors under close watch. Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, the stepdaughter of notorious Australian drug trafficker Carl Williams, who was murdered in Victoria's Barwon jail in 2010. But Ghanim's long-standing association with Melbourne's criminal underworld goes deeper than just family ties. In 2014, he was jailed following the shooting of fellow associate Serkan Kala after a dispute at a gym escalated. He and a co-accused pleaded guilty. On Wednesday, Bali detectives arrested three Australian men Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 37, Darcy Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, after an intense five-day police manhunt. Jenson was arrested at Jakarta Airport as he tried to get through an e-passport reader to board a flight to Singapore and then on to Cambodia. Tupou and Coskun managed to make it to Cambodia but were identified by Interpol who arrested them in Phnom Penh and flew them back to Indonesia. Detectives said a sledgehammer, believed to have been supplied by Coskun, was used to smash down the door of the villa moments before the alleged attack. Badung Police Chief Arif Batubara said the discarded hammer was discovered by officers at the entrance of the villa and quickly became a key piece of evidence. 'Starting from there, we launched an investigation into the barcode on the hammer's purchase,' he told reporters during a press conference on Saturday. Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene. It comes after Bali Police revealed on Wednesday how the gang allegedly fled across Indonesia after the shooting, escaping the scene on motorbikes before switching cars twice on an 18-hour, 1200km getaway to Jakarta. Detectives revealed the suspects were first traced through Tupou's distinctive tattoos which were first picked up on CCTV as he bought cigarettes near the villa where the attack unfolded. The tattoos were clearly visible in pictures of Tupou as he was being pushed in a wheelchair through Jakarta Airport after he was deported back to Indonesia. Tupou has a combination of traditional Tongan artwork inked onto his skin and the 676-international telephone dialling code for Tonga in huge numbers down his shin. Detectives are now working with forensic experts as they pore over evidence from the crime scene, including blood samples, the sledgehammer, bullet casings and projectiles, and face coverings. The crime squad is also looking at more CCTV footage, a vehicle and travel history, said a police spokesman. The three can be held without charge for months while police investigate the killing. Once they present their dossier of evidence, the three will be handed over to a prosecutor who will then send them to Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison. They will then face a court hearing to be formally charged, and kept at Kerobokan throughout their trial until a verdict and possible sentence. They are being investigated for premeditated murder which under Indonesian law can carry the death sentence. The Bali attack comes after exiled Melbourne tobacco overlord Kazem 'Kaz' Hamad is suspected by Australian underworld figures of ordering the hit on Abdulrahim. Abdulrahim reportedly went into hiding in May 2024 after narrowly escaping an ambush outside his northern suburbs home, where gunmen shot at him 17 times. In his last weeks alive, Abdulrahim was said to have become 'something of a ghost' as he moved between Melbourne, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. It's understood Abdulrahim flew into Melbourne the day before his as-yet unsolved murder. Hamad rules his criminal empire from the Middle East with violence and extortion and underworld sources say the ruthless kingpin has the means to order an offshore hit. Abdulrahim's dwindling allies were believed to have gone into hiding themselves after his murder.
Daily Mail
21-06-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The key item found at a luxury Bali villa that sparked the arrest of three Aussies now facing the death penalty over suspected gangland hit
Bali detectives have revealed it was a fluorescent orange sledgehammer that led them to arrest three Australians accused of a gangland hit on two Melbourne men. Zivan 'Stipe' Radmanovic, 35, and Sanar Ghanim, 34, were shot just after midnight on Saturday at a villa in Munggu, in Badung Regency in Bali's south, in an attack believed to be linked to Melbourne's feuding Middle Eastern crime syndicates. Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 37, Darcy Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, were arrested and brought back to Bali on Wednesday after an intense five-day police manhunt. Jenson was arrested at Jakarta Airport as he tried to get through an e-passport reader to board a flight to Singapore and then on to Cambodia. Tupou and Coskun managed to make it to Cambodia but were identified by Interpol who arrested them in Phnom Penh and flew them back to Indonesia. Authorities said the sledgehammer, believed to have been supplied by Coskun, was used to smash down the door of the villa moments before the alleged attack. Badung Police Chief Arif Batubara said the discarded hammer was discovered by officers at the entrance of the villa and quickly became a key piece of evidence. 'Starting from there, we launched an investigation into the barcode on the hammer's purchase,' he told reporters during a press conference on Saturday. 'We checked the barcode both on-site and at the store where it was bought. From there, we investigated the shop and its address. 'That's where it started, allowing us to trace the origin of the hammer.' It comes after Bali Police revealed on Wednesday how the gang allegedly fled across Indonesia after the shooting, escaping the scene on motorbikes before switching cars twice on an 18-hour, 1200km getaway to Jakarta. Detectives revealed the suspects were first traced through Tupou's distinctive tattoos which were first picked up on CCTV as he bought cigarettes near the villa where the attack unfolded. Tupou has a combination of traditional Tongan artwork inked onto his skin and the 676-international telephone dialling code for Tonga in huge numbers down his shin. The tattoos were clearly visible in pictures of Tupou as he was being pushed in a wheelchair through Jakarta Airport after he was deported back to Indonesia. Detectives are now working with forensic experts as they pore over evidence from the crime scene, including blood samples, the sledgehammer, bullet casings and projectiles, and face coverings. The crime squad is also looking at more CCTV footage, a vehicle and travel history, said a police spokesman. The three can be held without charge for months while police investigate the killing. Once they present their dossier of evidence, the three will be handed over to a prosecutor who will then send them to Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison. They will then face a court hearing to be formally charged, and kept at Kerobokan throughout their trial until a verdict and possible sentence. They are being investigated for premeditated murder which under Indonesian law can carry the death sentence. Radmanovic, who had 175 court appearances to his name, died in front of his wife in the villa toilet, while Ghanim was rushed to Kuta's BIMC Hospital with multiple injuries. He was discharged from hospital on Sunday in a wheelchair, nursing a bandaged leg, and police say he has so far refused to co-operate with local authorities. Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, the stepdaughter of notorious Australian drug trafficker Carl Williams, who was murdered in Victoria's Barwon jail in 2010. Radmanovic's wife Jazmyn Gourdeas, 29, was reportedly asleep at the villa when she awoke to the sound of her husband screaming at around 12.15am. From behind a blanket, the mother-of-six said she witnessed the man in the orange jacket and another man open fire on her husband while he was in the bathroom. Shortly afterwards, she heard further gunshots and Ghanim screaming from a separate room after he was gunned down in his bedroom. With her husband already dead, Ms Gourdeas tried to stem Ghanim's bleeding until emergency services arrived. A fourth person in the villa - believed to be a family member - managed to flee the property while gunshots rang out. Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene. Ghanim and Radmanovic's family are currently being kept on the island 'under close police watch', authorities said. Radmanovic and Ms Gourdeas are understood to have arrived last Thursday to celebrate her 30th birthday in Bali, where Ghanim and his partner had reportedly been living for years. Ghanim's long-standing association with Melbourne's criminal underworld goes deeper than just family ties. In 2014, he was jailed following the shooting of fellow associate Serkan Kala after a dispute at a gym escalated. He and a co-accused pleaded guilty.
