Alen Moradian shot multiple times in head during Bondi Junction shooting

Slain drug baron Alen Moradian was shot multiple times in the head at close range, leaving his face almost unrecognisable.

A source close to the investigation said the cocaine kingpin and Comanchero bikie heavyweight who was executed in Sydney’s east on Tuesday morning had not left a good-looking corpse.

‘He was shot multiple times through the head,’ the source said. ‘Absolutely pulverised.’

The 48-year-old cocaine kingpin had also taken bullets to the torso as one of two killers apparently fired every round from a pistol’s magazine into his body.

‘They walked up and emptied a clip into him,’ the source said. ‘He wasn’t going anywhere.’

Moradian had been sitting in his black Audi in the underground carpark of his Bondi Junction apartment, about to go to the gym, before he was suddenly fired at about 8.30am on Tuesday.

Police remain on the hunt for two gunmen and have seized two burnt out cars – believed to be used as getaway vehicles – that were abandoned a short time later in Bondi and Zetland.

Moradian’s car has been taken away for forensic examination and was seen with seven bullet holes through its driver’s side window.

Forensics teams will now begin the gruelling task of performing tests in search for vital clues that may lead them to the killers, such as DNA, ammunition or blood samples.

The car was taken away to undergo further forensic tests as police hunt for the killers 

Meanwhile, detectives have traced the Audi – which was not registered under Moradian’s name – to a hire car company from southwestern Sydney.

According to The Daily Telegraph, police intelligence suggests the company has links to the Alameddine crime clan and its use – as well as Moradian’s associations – will form part of their investigation.

However, one of the getaway cars – a grey Porsche Macan dumped on James St in Bondi – may also prove vital to solving the case after a failed attempt to set it fully alight.

In a major breakthrough, firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, allowing detectives to recover an intact handgun beneath one of the seats.

Moradian, dubbed Australia’s ‘Tony Soprano’, is understood to have been a member of the Commission, an underworld network linked to the Comancheros which controls the city’s drug trade.

Alen Moradian’s hire car (pictured) was towed away from the crime scene on Wednesday 

He pleaded guilty in 2010 to importing 40kg of cocaine into Australia – although authorities suspected it was up to 100kg – and spent several years behind bars.

Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said Moradian’s links to the big names in Sydney’s underbelly made him a high-value target in the underworld.

‘He’s a high-level criminal identity … he’s a major player in the organised crime network and also has links to the Comanchero OMCG (outlaw motorcycle gang),’ Doherty said hours after Moradian’s death.

‘He obviously had a big target on his back.’