{"id":694809,"date":"2026-05-26T03:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:11:13","slug":"two-arrested-in-vietnam-over-shooting-death-of-sydney-gangster-lorenzo-lemalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694809\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested in Vietnam over shooting death of Sydney gangster Lorenzo Lemalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two men have been arrested by Vietnamese authorities after the shooting of a senior Sydney underworld figure last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Lorenzo Lemalu, 24, died after being shot dead on a busy street in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday night local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Lemalu was suspected by NSW Police to be behind the &#8220;Coconut Cartel&#8221;, a name the group has given itself and comes from a historic slur against Pasifika people, which has waged a war with rival crime gangs in Sydney over recent months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lorenzo Lemalu with a group of men lifting his shirt up.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ff4e22c4d4f8b36e0e489d211e5d16ae.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Lorenzo Lemalu, who was shot dead in Vietnam last week. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Security video of the incident shows two men dressed in black open fire on Mr Lemalu and an associate as bystanders ran for cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security said two suspects had been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Currently, law enforcement agencies are focusing on investigating, verifying, and strictly handling the individuals involved in accordance with the law,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An earlier alert for two men had been issued by Vietnamese authorities stating that the suspects fled in a taxi after shooting Mr Lemalu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested by Vietnamese authorities after the shooting of a senior Sydney underworld figure last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,338841,44,4277,4905,41,39,42,40,38297,5611],"class_list":["post-694809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-lorenzo-lemalu","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-shooting","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-underworld","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694809","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=694809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}