The Iraqi-Aussie Gangster Lighting up Melbourne: Kaz Hamad

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Melbourne has been gripped by a new wave of underworld gang wars, this time fueled by the booming billion dollar black-market tobacco trade. Firebombings, drive-by shootings, and extortion targeting shops across the city have roiled the city as middle eastern syndicates and biker gangs fight over profit. At the center of the chaos is underworld figure Kaz Hamad, whose name keeps surfacing as rival crime crews battle for control of a trade worth tens of millions. Deported to Iraq, he kept running the racket remotely until his arrest in early 2026, blazing a path of ruthlessness that authorities seem incapable of stopping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's Andrew from the Scary Mysteries podcast where every single week we dive into insane and creepy true crime compilations,
0:08.0	as well as cover the most terrifying and strange news stories currently happening all around the world.
0:14.0	And we go in to all the topics you want to hear about, missing persons, killers, UFOs, and more. Best of all, we don't waste your time with any
0:23.7	fluff or fillers, just straight in all the dark details. If you like true crime, then you're
0:29.8	going to love us. So go check out the Scary Mysteries podcast right now. January 28th, 2025, Melbourne, Australia. People keep trying to kill Sam the Punisher
0:42.8	Abdulrahim, professional kickboxer and infamous underworld figure. In 2019, he's first ambushed in a
0:50.1	drive-by and then later bashed in the head with a rock while serving his first day in prison.
0:55.4	In June of 2022, he shot eight times outside his cousin's funeral.
1:00.3	Then, in May of 2024, 17 shots are fired at him outside of his home.
1:05.6	His house is also shot up when he's not home, then firebombed.
1:09.9	That isn't even to mention all the times the police
1:12.4	have warned him to cancel a fight because of a contract on his head. Or the multiple times,
1:17.3	he's had the venues he was supposed to fight at, firebombed, and burned down right before the fight.
1:23.0	It gets so bad, it basically ends his career as a professional fighter.
1:28.3	Abdul Rahim has given plenty of people reasons to want to hurt him.
1:32.3	In 2015, he infamously got into a wild brawl at a Melbourne courthouse with a rival kickboxer.
1:38.3	That same year, he crashed a Ferrari while high, killing a grandmother and injuring 10 others.
1:45.1	He'd also fallen out with the Comancheira Biker gang, of which he was a member, then
1:49.4	switched up and joined the Mongols Biker gang, only to fall out with them after pissing off
1:55.0	another gangster.
1:56.5	And yet another gangster who he worked with had falling out with him afterurahim refused to back him up in a casino brawl.
2:03.6	The thing he did that most likely pissed off people enough to want him dead though came on the orders of notorious gangster and drug lord George Morogi.
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