Sydney underworld figure Ibrahem Hamze will be extradited to NSW to face a raft of offences, including soliciting murder.
Queensland Police arrested the 29-year-old at Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast yesterday afternoon, the latest incident in a lengthy and often deadly feud between the Alameddine and Hamzy crime networks.
It is understood Mr Hamze has been in Queensland for the past week, with friends and a cousin.
He faced an extradition hearing in the Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The extradition was not opposed by defence solicitor Ashkan Tai, acting for Sydney firm Abbas and Co Lawyers.
"There will be no application for bail, my client accepts he is the man named in the warrant," he said.
It is understood NSW police officers will accompany Mr Hamze on a chartered flight to Sydney later today.
The NSW warrant is for almost 20 offences alleged to have occurred across a number of years.
An offence of soliciting, encouraging or persuading murder is alleged to have occurred on November 1, 2021.
The warrant also lists being an accessory before the fact to the offence of shooting with the intent to murder, and supplying of a pistol, on the same date.
Mr Hamze is also expected to be charged with acquiring a pistol and being an accessory before the fact to murder on November 29, 2021.
Some of the charges on the warrant are alleged to relate to a shooting at World Gym in the Western Sydney suburb of Prospect, in November 2021, the ABC has been told.
Mr Hamze is also expected to be charged with knowingly directing activities of a criminal group in July 2021, and supplying a commercial quantity of drugs in 2018.
He is expected to face Sydney's Central Local Court on Thursday.
News of Mr Hamze's arrest came as police in NSW launched a renewed appeal for information over the murder of his cousin Mejid Hamzy in October 2020.
The 44-year-old Hamzy family patriarch was shot dead near his Condell Park home by two gunmen.
Police today released new CCTV footage as part of the investigation into Mr Hamzy's death, and began searching parkland for the gun used in the murder.
The vision shows two men in dark clothing arriving at a car park in Panania at around 4am on October 19, 2020, before the shooting.
It also captures Mr Hamzy attempting to flee after the shooting, and the two men in dark clothing running through Colechin Reserve in Condell Park at around 7.30am.
The two men, one of whom has distinctive blond hair, were also captured walking near Kelso Park Soccer Club after the murder.
Detective Acting Superintendent Chris Goddard said police suspected the two men shown in the footage were "responsible for Mr Hamzy's murder".
"We think that these people may live close by the area. They have an affiliation with the area. Or at the very least they're familiar with the area around Deepwater Park," he said.
"We suspect that they may have hidden guns, or other paraphernalia associated with the murder, somewhere in Deepwater Park, or in fact that they've used this as a meeting point."
Acting Superintendent Goddard said a review of CCTV footage obtained by police had led them to Deepwater Park and he was "confident" a major discovery would be made.
He also commented briefly on the arrest of Ibrahem Hamze, saying he was facing "significant offences".
"Suffice to say it doesn't matter who you are or where you are, we'll track you down," he said.
This morning police divers could be seen searching a creek east of Deepwater Park, near Bankstown in Western Sydney.
They were sifting through rubbish that had been washed into the water, using a metal detector in an attempt to find a weapon.
Officers were also looking in drains connected to the creek.
A 38-year-old man was arrested last year and charged with planning Mr Hamzy's murder.
Different branches of the Hamzy family use variations of the surname.
