{"id":338244,"date":"2025-12-10T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338244\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:08:08","slug":"sydney-lawyer-sylvan-singh-charged-with-alleged-attempts-to-import-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338244\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney lawyer Sylvan Singh charged with alleged attempts to import drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Sydney lawyer who narrowly avoided death in a gangland shooting earlier this year has been charged with drug importation offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Solicitor Sylvan Singh, 26, is due to face a Sydney bail court on Wednesday morning after being arrested on Tuesday and charged with four counts of attempting to import a commercial quantity of drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Singh was one of several people shot at inside a ute at Church Street, Granville on May 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The criminal lawyer was in the car at the time but survived after sustaining non-life threatening injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Crime figure Dawood Zakaria, 32, died after being shot in the attack later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have since said they believe the target was former Alameddine crime family associate Samimjan Azari, who also survived the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The ABC attempted to contact Mr Singh through his law firm at the time but he was unable to be reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney lawyer who narrowly avoided death in a gangland shooting earlier this year has been charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,79972,44,2733,4905,670,188163],"class_list":["post-338244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drug-importation","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-shooting","tag-sydney","tag-sylvan-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}