Sira Elkheir, 21, has been charged with a number of kidnapping-related offenses and is suspected of exploiting her position as a Service NSW employee to provide the gang with Mr. Vuong’s address. Dramatic video captures the moment Ms. Elkheir was taken into custody on Wednesday at 11 am at a Bunning’s parking lot in the western Sydney suburb of Greenacre.
Before forcing Ms. Elkheir to remove her shoes and jewelry and put her into the back of a police vehicle, policemen touched her physically and inspected her handbag and black Mercedes.
Police have pounced on a young lady suspected of being involved in the violent abduction and six-day torture of a businessman. On March 9, six men reportedly kidnapped Peter Vuong, 26, from a home in Smithfield in western Sydney. They were armed with sledgehammers and firearms.
Sira Elkheir Arrested over Peter Vuong kidnapping
The guys allegedly ripped his teeth out throughout the terrible incident and demanded a $5million ransom be paid for his release. Police will claim in court that the lady worked for a state government agency and had access to personal information that was shared with others for illegal activities. The Yagoona woman’s request for bail to show up in court on Thursday was denied.
In connection with the alleged kidnapping and torture, Viliami Siasau, 19, Valali Tonga, 20, Sunia Siasau, 20, John Totau Fahamokioa, 20, Lolo Liavaa, 19, and Kitueau Tatafu, 21, have also been accused.
According to Daily Mail Australia, Mr. Vuong’s girlfriend Angela Bowyer, a former member of a drug gang that dealt a lot of cocaine, ice, and MDMA, was his claimed assailant while they were in bed together.
According to the records, Ms. Bowyer received a three-year sentence with a minimum of 18 months in prison for her involvement in the narcotics ring. The home of her parents, where her partner is supposed to have been abducted, is where Ms. Bowyer is thought to have counted out the money exchanged in an MDMA transaction.
The Daily Mail Australia does not imply that any family members of Ms. Bowyer were aware of her prior drug trading or that they were involved in Mr. Vuong’s extortion. Since her legal issues, Ms. Bowyer has reinvented herself and now has 90,000 TikTok followers as an influencer.
In 2017, she was previously detained alongside her ex-boyfriend as part of a police undercover sting investigation investigating the distribution of cocaine and MDMA after being observed showing up for significant drug sales in her father’s black Audi.
She was observed during one of her transactions totaling out $38,000 in cocaine “buy money” and putting away $7,000 of that sum for her personal use. Ms. Bowyer was found guilty on one charge of distributing 3kg of MDMA and two further offences of supplying a commercial amount of narcotics while denying any involvement in the drug trade.
An undercover police officer managed to enter the drug gang using the encrypted chat platform WICKR and aliases like “d0peman88,” “candyman88,” and “unclekracker88” to conceal their unlawful operations.
The Task Force Teribah drug sting took place when Ms. Bowyer, then a 19-year-old UTS business student, was dating Domino’s delivery driver Nguyen Huynh. Before being released on parole in 2018, Ms. Bowyer served 18 months in jail.
Since then, she has developed into a major brand’s social media influencer. Ms. Bowyer currently runs the private events company Cloud Nine Studio, which she leases out in a chic, white-themed setting for photo sessions, brand launches, baby showers, and engagement parties.
Ms. Bowyer has worked as an influencer and a brand ambassador for companies including PrettyLittleThing. The company has been put on pause as Ms. Bowyer and her family heal from her boyfriend Mr. Vuong’s claimed kidnapping trauma. The suspected kidnappers allegedly threatened to chop Mr. Vuong’s body “in pieces” or demanded a $5 million ransom from Ms. Bowyer’s successful crypto trader and real estate developer relative Tran Dinh, according to court filings.
Mr. Vuong and Tran Dinh, a father of four, are not accused of any misconduct. The alleged kidnapping has brought Ms. Bowyer’s prior involvement with a narcotics group in 2017 to light.
In order to dismantle the gang, police from SF Teribah carried out three controlled drug supply operations. An undercover policeman named “Jim” infiltrated the organization and used currency with pre-recorded serial numbers to pay for the narcotics. On March 22, 2017, Jim gave a gang member a $1000 deposit toward the purchase of 1kg of MDMA. Five days later, they met again, and Jim gave them another $49,000.
According to police records, Jim was directed to follow Angel Bowyer and Huynh to the Bowyer family home in Smithfield when he arrived at a Canley Heights residence at 3:06 p.m. on March 27, 2017.
After Huynh handed Bowyer $7000 and told her to take it upstairs, which she did, Jim entered the home where Ms. Bowyer, H, and another guy had just counted out $38,000 of the money.
Jim then traveled around 5 kilometers to an address in Wakeley, where he was given a plastic-wrapped package with yellow tape on it and informed that the provider of the drugs was called “candyman88” on Wickr. The cryo-vac plastic bag containing dark powder, which drug detectives later weighed, contained 992g of MDMA with a purity level of 53.5%.
Although the Crown has not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms. Bowyer knew it was a big commercial quantity, the police facts indicate that she was aware that at least a commercial quantity was being delivered.
Late in April 2017, Ms. Bowyer’s boyfriend H informed Jim the undercover cop that he could give MDMA by the kilogram as well as “nose,” or cocaine, and “eye,” or methamphetamine, and that Jim’s new WICKR moniker was “unclecracker88.”
Jim drove to a location in Hinchinbrook, southwest of Sydney, where he made arrangements to purchase 1 kilogram of MDMA for $40,000, an ounce of cocaine for $7500, and an ounce of ice for $4500. He also collected $60,000 in recorded buy money.
Jim met a third guy who lived there with his parents as Huynh and Ms. Bowyer waited, and they proceeded into the backyard to count out $55,000. Huynh pulled out a black rucksack that was filled with white powder in two knotted bags, a transparent crystal material in a sealable bag, and a brown substance in a cryo-vac bag.
After the trade of money for narcotics, Jim gave the police the bags, which were analyzed and discovered to contain 1006.5g of MDMA with a purity of 49 percent, 28g of cocaine with an accuracy of 87 percent, and 28g of ice with a purity of 78 percent.
There is agreement that Ms. Bowyer knew that at least a commercial amount of MDMA was being sold, but the Crown was unable to establish with certainty that she also knew that cocaine and methylamphetamine were being supplied.
The last sale in the police operation took place on May 16, 2017 when Jim negotiated to buy 3kg of MDMA for $120,000 and 10 ounces of cocaine for $73,000.
The following morning at 8am, Jim gathered $220,000 in buy money and followed Huynh and Angel Bowyer to Hinchinbrook, where the two argued over who would get the pills since Huynh said his foot was “f***ed.” Huynh claimed Angel Bowyer’s foot was “f***ed.”
Ms. Bowyer went into the backyard of the house and came back with a bag of MDMA and cocaine, which she gave to Huynh, who then gave it to Jim. Police arrived at the scene and detained Huynh, Angel Bowyer and the young guy who lived at the residence, and seized the cash and the narcotics.
The final three years of Ms. Bowyer’s sentence were served in May 2020. Ms. Bowyer was interviewed by Daily Mail Australia in September 2020 about how she changed her life in only five months by dropping 23 kg without paying for an expensive gym subscription.
Ms. Bowyer revealed that after working out in the garden or at the park, she went from weighing 73 kg in November 2018 to 50 kg by April 2018. Mr Dinh is a wealthy businessman and parent whose spouse often posts images of his opulent life – even on trips in Paris.
After her boyfriend’s dramatic reported kidnapping, Ms. Bowyer and her family have chosen not to speak publicly about the incident. At the dilapidated residence on Canterbury Road in Belmore at around 6 o’clock on Tuesday evening, Mr. Vuong was saved by hundreds of highly armed NSW Police tactical officers.
Police allegedly found Mr. Vuong blindfolded on a bed, with his teeth and a pair of bloodied pliers in another room, after using flash grenades to raid the house.
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