A high-profile criminal lawyer has become the seventh person to be charged over the alleged murder of Sydney teenager Brayden Dillon on Good Friday last year.
Ali Abbas, 38, was arrested after police raided his office on Castlereagh Street in the CBD, a Bexley storage unit and his Monterey home in the city's south.
Dozens of homicide detectives seized electronic stun guns, mobile phones, computers, laptops, $30,000 in cash and documents yesterday afternoon.
He has been charged with accessory after the fact to murder, knowingly participating in a criminal group and acting with intent to pervert the course of justice.
Police allege he helped provide false witness statements on behalf of others and passed on information relating to the shooting to various different people, while also smuggling a mobile phone to an inmate in jail.
Mr Abbas has previously represented high-profile criminals including the late former Comanchero boss Mahmoud 'Mick' Hawi.
A number of criminal lawyers are being investigated for allegedly fabricating evidence after 15-year-old Brayden was shot dead while sleeping at his mother's home at Glenfield in April last year.
Investigators believe he was killed in a revenge attack after his older brother, Joshua, allegedly stabbed Adam Abu-Mahmoud to death during a street brawl at Panania in 2016.
Just over a year later, it is alleged that Abu-Mahmoud's uncle, Abdul Abu-Mahmoud, then hired accused gunman Craig Conrad and others to carry out a hit on Brayden.
Abdul Abu-Mahmoud was arrested and charged with the teenager's murder this month after arriving home on a flight from the resort island of Phuket.
Last week, Abdul Abu-Mahmoud's brother and Adam Abu-Mahmoud's father, Mohamed Abu-Mahmoud, was charged with accessory after the fact to murder and preventing the course of justice.
Mr Abbas has been refused bail and is due to face court later today.
