Underworld figure Sam Amine caught in police sting supplying drugs and firearm

These are the pictures that show Australian underworld figure Sam Amine's underling caught in the act of supplying a gun and more than 1 kilogram of drugs to an undercover police officer.

Amine, 39, remains wanted in Fiji over a record drug haul but is awaiting sentence in the NSW District Court after pleading guilty to brokering the supply of the drugs and firearm.

Court documents obtained as part of the case against Amine show how he organised the sale and how his nephew physically handed the gun and drugs over.

What they did not know was that they were walking into a NSW Police sting and their buyer, using the Threema handle "Kraken", was an undercover operative.

'Light but very strong'

The operation that snared Amine and his associates began with a simple message from Kraken to Amine on the encrypted app in April 2024.

A statement of facts tendered to court detailed Amine telling the undercover officer that the 500 grams of MDMA on offer was "light but very strong".

Two days later, surveillance images presented in court show Amine's nephew Nabil Allouche getting into the police officer's car outside the Greenacre McDonald's.

Court documents state the drugs referenced by Amine were exchanged for $20,000.

When police forensically examined the drugs they found the MDMA had a purity level of 77.5 per cent.

'Any luck with the shooters?'

By May, Kraken had another request for Amine.

"Hey brother! Any luck with the shooters?" he asked.

"What exactly are you looking for? You need it loaded … 30k bro," Amine replied under the handle DK, according to court documents.

Along with the message was an image of a .45 calibre pistol.

Two days after the message, police surveillance captured the moment the undercover officer picked up the firearm in exchange for $28,000.

A week later, court documents state Amine brokered the sale of 986 grams of MDMA and 56 grams of cocaine to the undercover police officer.

This time police swooped on Allouche after the $48,000 exchange and Amine is arrested a short time later.

Trouble in paradise

In April the ABC's Foreign Correspondent revealed Amine is separately wanted in Fiji over an unrelated record 4-tonne methamphetamine seizure.

The country's High Court labelled him a "drug kingpin" last year as nine Fijians were given the most severe sentences ever handed down for a drug crime in the nation's history.

Amine left Fiji and four months later, in May 2024, was charged with selling drugs and a firearm to an undercover officer on a suburban Sydney street.

Vision of his arrest shows officers dressed in tactical uniform storming his waterfront Sans Souci mansion as the anti-gangs Raptor Squad arrested Amine in Ramsgate.

The NSW Crime Commission has also seized $10 million worth of his assets.

Amine's associations with the city's gangland milieu saw him kidnapped and tortured during one bloody ordeal over several days for a $3 million ransom in 2021.

A previous bail hearing heard he had connections to the Alameddine crime family and the KVT, a Western Sydney street gang of Fijian-Australians.

Amine has pleaded guilty to supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs and supply of a firearm.

He is due to be sentenced over the drug and pistol offences in the Downing Centre District Court next week.