A Sydney lawyer with links to the notorious Alameddine crime family has been charged with orchestrating an armed kidnapping and home invasion in Sydney’s western suburbs last year, months before he survived an underworld shooting that killed his close associate.

Sylvan Singh, a former solicitor at his father’s Parramatta-based Redline Legal, was charged on Tuesday with directing a kidnapping performed by a gangland crew armed with machetes and baseball bats in Pemulwuy last year. The male target was bundled into a stolen Mercedes by three masked assailants after the ute he was travelling in was blocked by the men. The target escaped when the Mercedes stopped shortly after the abduction, leading the crew to flee into nearby bushland.

Singh is also alleged to have engineered a home invasion on an Ermington address in February 2025, two weeks after the alleged kidnapping, in which four people stormed the home, stealing several electronic devices and assaulting a 17-year-old boy and 48-year-old man.

Singh, 27, was arrested at his Ryde address on Tuesday morning and charged over the two alleged crimes at Gladesville Police Station, ahead of an appearance at Burwood Local Court on Wednesday. Both matters were investigated under Strike Force Velinda, which has borne 10 charges.

In May last year, Singh was in the Toyota Hilux where underworld figure Dawood Zakaria was fatally shot in a gangland attack sparked by the defection of a senior Alameddine member to a rival crime syndicate.

Singh was shot in the arm and shoulder in the attack, which triggered the NSW Police’s formation of Taskforce Falcon to combat rising gangland violence linked to the Alameddine feud. Several people have been charged with the murder of Zakaria and attempted murder of Singh.

Singh’s practising certificate was suspended by the Council of the Law Society of NSW in September.

NSW solicitor charged with gun possession, 3D weapons

Separately, a 32-year-old solicitor from northern NSW was charged on Tuesday after a bolt-action rifle, two pistols, a semi-automatic privately manufactured firearm, a 3D printer, and blueprints to create guns were allegedly seized from two addresses in Moree.

Joshua David Gale was charged with 16 offences, including acquiring firearms and ammunition, the possession of more than three unregistered firearms, and manufacturing a prohibited firearm without a licence or permit.

Gale was arrested and taken to Moree Police Station, ahead of a bail hearing on Wednesday. It followed an investigation under Strike Force Temarang, after it received reports about the private manufacture of 3D-printed firearms and parts in northern NSW.