Murder charges have been dropped against former Comenchero kingpin Tarek Zahed and his younger brother Abdul Zahed over the death of Youssef Assoum more than nine years ago.
Just before the brothers were due to stand trial by jury charged with murder, both men pleaded guilty to lesser charges after their respective lawyers struck a plea deal with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Tarek Zahed pleaded guilty on Monday to hindering the discovery of evidence regarding a serious indictable offence.
His younger brother Abdul pleaded guilty on Tuesday to being an accessory after the fact to murder.
The court previously heard Youssef Assoum, who was found by a doctor, was shot in a residential street just metres from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in December 2014.
According to court documents, Yousseff Assoum was detained and violently assaulted inside his Volkswagen car before being shot in the leg at close range with a firearm.
The document states that restraints were placed on the ankles and wrists of Mr Assoum and that the 29-year-old died as a result of severe blood loss from the gunshot wound.
Police investigations found Tarek Zahed's fingerprints inside the Volkswagen.
According to a statement of agreed facts, he has admitted to destroying the Volkswagen in which Mr Assoum was shot and knowing that the victim had died.
Abdul Zahed has admitted to knowing the persons who were responsible for Mr Assoum's murder and assisting those persons to evade detection and punishment after the fact.
Court documents reveal Abdul Zahed lied to hospital staff about not knowing Mr Assoum, provided multiple false reports to police, conspired with his brother to mislead police and to this day has not identified the people responsible for the 29-year-old's murder.
The maximum penalty for hindering the discovery of evidence regarding a serious indictable offence is seven years imprisonment, while the maximum penalty for an accessory after the fact to murder is 25 years' imprisonment.
Arrest came months after assassination attempt
Tarek Zahed was dramatically arrested on a busy road in Sydney's eastern suburbs on August 28 2022, after officers fired non-lethal shots at a luxury car he was travelling in.
The Comanchero national sergeant-at-arms was dragged out of the vehicle, handcuffed, and taken to a nearby police station where the charges were laid.
Vision of the arrest showed his head bandaged, three months after he miraculously survived an assassination attempt out the front of an Auburn gym.
Abdul Zahed was arrested at a correctional facility in Bathurst in September 2022.
The Zahed brothers had previously pleaded not guilty to murder and were due to face trial in the NSW Supreme Court this week.
Both men pleaded not guilty to the charge of kidnapping in company, which has now also been dropped.
Both Tarek and Abdul Zahed remain in custody and are expected to be sentenced separately later this year.