Raptor Squad arrest man alleged to have shot Ray, Joe Frangieh’s mum’s house
Ray Frangieh, who was ordered to pay compensation to the NSW Crime Commission, had sold his yellow BMW to another crime figure, Ken Tan. When Tan failed to pay $50,000 for the car, Ray reported the matter to the police. The first shooting occurred the same day police seized the BMW, according to court records.
Earlier on the day of the second shooting, Ray had run Tan off the road during a road rage incident, prompting Tan to retaliate by sending his associates to open fire on Frangieh’s home. Tan was later jailed for manslaughter.
Joe and Sharon Frangieh and the bullet holes in the Concord home.
In the Supreme Court in Brisbane in 2021, Ray Frangieh, a former Gold Coast nightclub promoter, pleaded guilty to trafficking dangerous drugs, including cocaine. His ex-wife Melissa narrowly avoided prison for laundering nearly $200,000, which a court heard was the proceeds of crime from her husband’s drugs supply empire.
Ray Frangieh, 45, also has a conviction for assault and pleaded guilty to dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deceiving the previous owner of his car by falsely nominating him as the driver when he was caught going 53 mph over the speed limit on Lane Cove Road in North Ryde in 2022.
Ray and his brother Joe were jailed in NSW in 2002 for supplying cocaine.
Joe Frangieh has been involved in a more than decade-long dispute with the Australian Taxation Office over an audit of his tax affairs dating back to 2007. According to court documents, an unexplained $3,234,064 was deposited into Frangieh’s account that year.
Roni Korovou-Tokaduadua was arrested in Mascot on Wednesday.Credit: NSW Police
Frangieh then produced a series of legal representations from family and friends claiming that “certain deposits” into his account were loan repayments or motor vehicle payments.
He claimed some of the deposits were loan repayments from Ray, to whom he loaned $200,000 to buy a car.
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Joe Frangieh also claimed that his sister Elizabeth and mother Hasna deposited money with him to invest in property.
Although Frangieh’s dispute with the ATO was resolved, he sued the ATO for $8.75 million in 2017, claiming that tracking him had caused “humiliation, embarrassment, stress, anxiety, emotional pain and distress”. He lost and was ordered to pay the costs.
His objection was also unsuccessful. An ATO official said “Mr Frangieh testified that bad faith, malevolence and conscious mismanagement” had been proven. “None of these grounds are justified,” the NSW Court of Appeal said.
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