Marcus appeared on the program this week to allege he shared intelligence with ASIO about gunmen Naveed and Sajid Akram’s alleged terrorism associations as far back as 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n The father-son duo are accused of draping IS flags on the younger man’s car before opening fire on Jewish Australians celebrating Hanukkah.<\/p>\n Naveed Akram, 24, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder.<\/p>\n Sajid Akram was shot dead at the scene.<\/p>\n ASIO told Four Corners it investigated the information at the time, but it could not substantiate it, concluding Naveed Akram, then a teenager, did not present a terrorist threat or subscribe to violent extremist ideology.<\/p>\n Marcus disagreed with the assessment that Naveed Akram was not radicalised at that time.<\/p>\n “What happened on Bondi Beach was a result of a set of errors and a disregard for information,” he told Four Corners.<\/p>\n ‘There are threats against his life’<\/p>\n Registered whistleblower support charity The Information Rights Project has now launched a fundraiser in support of Marcus.<\/p>\n Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, says Marcus’s life is in danger because of the work he did for ASIO. (Reuters: Toby Melville)<\/p>\n Founder and director Gabriel Shipton claimed Marcus was “basically on the run” now.<\/p>\n “He can’t earn a living, he’s not able to work in the country he’s in,” Mr Shipton said.<\/p>\n “It’s a very precarious existence for him.<\/p>\n “There are \u2026 credible threats against his life from the organisation that he infiltrated on behalf of ASIO, while he was working for ASIO, as well as \u2026 [ASIO] discrediting Marcus.”<\/p>\n Asked about Mr Shipton’s comments, an ASIO spokesperson referred the ABC to ASIO director-general Mike Burgess’s comments to a Senate estimates hearing this week in which he rejected the suggestion Akrams’ extremism was longstanding<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said ASIO’s report would set out the agency’s position and the royal commission would “make their own judgements”.<\/p>\n An ASIO spokesperson said in a statement: “If ‘Marcus’ faces credible threats following the ABC’s decision to identify him as having allegedly penetrated terrorist groups, we encourage immediate engagement with law enforcement.”<\/p>\n The ABC understands Marcus is currently separated from his family while protecting himself in a safe location.<\/p>\n Money raised would be used to pay for accommodation and day-to-day living expenses until permanent refuge was found, Mr Shipton said.<\/p>\n Marcus ‘unreliable and disgruntled’, ASIO says<\/p>\n Mr Shipton launched The Information Rights Project in 2024 while supporting his brother, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was imprisoned on charges connected to his handling of classified US war documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said Mr Assange had predicted ASIO would try to discredit its former agent after he made allegations about the domestic spy agency.<\/p>\n ASIO has publicly described Marcus as “unreliable and disgruntled”.<\/p>\n “I spoke to [Julian] in the lead-up, and he said exactly what’s happening: that ASIO will come, they will try and discredit Marcus and distance themselves from this, and it exactly happened like he said it would,” Mr Shipton said.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5233518c788f8e6b05a9321df84ffed3.jpeg\")
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