Samoan suspect confesses to hired hit in Vietnam on Sydney gangster

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A Samoan suspect confessed to a contracted killing of an Australian gangster connected with Sydney’s underworld in Vietnam. The gangland murder involving foreign nationals highlights rising cross-border organized crime in Ho Chi Minh City.

One of the two Samoan men arrested by Vietnamese police over the killing of an Australian with reported links to Sydney’s criminal underworld outside a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City has admitted that he was hired to carry out a hit on a rival. Lorenzo Lemalu, 24, was gunned down outside the restaurant last Thursday, in a rare gangland murder involving foreigners using Vietnam as a base for their crime. Shocking images of the shooting caught on CCTV show flashes from a gun wielded by a hooded...