Alen Moradian secret tattoo meaning: Drug lord shot dead at Bondi Junction is mourned at funeral

The violent and romantic history of assassinated cocaine kingpin Alen Moradian was written across his hands.

An exclusive photo obtained by Daily Mail Australia sheds light on his opulent life and the secret meaning behind his tattoos. 

Moradian, dubbed Australia’s Tony Soprano, was farewelled at his funeral on Wednesday, after he was gunned down in a brazen daylight shooting as he sat in his car at Bondi Junction in Sydney. 

Chinese characters on his fingers spell out ‘war’ and ‘kingdom’ on his right hand.

Ink on his left hand marks his wife’s name ‘Natasha’ and the Spanish translation of ‘my crazy life’.

Moradian, 48, had a lavish lifestyle, wearing a Rolex Sky-Dweller watch worth $80,000 and having gold teeth.

The flashy criminal ploughed millions of his drug money into expensive Versace furnishings, antiques and extravagant artwork – including a Sistine Chapel-inspired ceiling.

Moradian had his wife Natasha’s named tattooed on his hand. Natasha Moradian is pictured (right) at his funeral on Wednesday

The flashy criminal ploughed millions of his drug money into expensive Versace furnishings, antiques and extravagant artwork – including a Sistine Chapel-inspired ceiling (pictured) 

Also known as Fathead, Moradian was farewelled at the Assyrian Church of the East on Wednesday as a small army of security officers and police watched over the ceremony. 

Tensions ran high as the guards warned the media that Moradian’s associates were prepared to attack them as hundreds gathered for his memorial service. 

‘Don’t you know who these people are?’ one guard asked a Daily Mail Australia photographer. ‘They will break your f***ing face.’

Family and friends gathered at St Hurmizd’s Cathedral in Greenfield Park in western Sydney, nine days after the underworld heavyweight linked to the Comanchero bikie gang was gunned down on his wife’s birthday. 

Mourners were seen comforting Natasha Moradian, whose emotions were hidden behind designer sunglasses as she hugged a loved one wearing $1,790 Louis Vuitton Run Away sneakers. 

Natasha’s name is written prominently on Moradian’s left hand ring finger in the photo obtained by Daily Mail Australia.

Next to that, on his middle finger is a cross, signifying his Christian background, while his index finger features both a dagger and three dots. 

The three dots are a common prison tattoo standing for the Spanish phrase ‘mi vida loca’, which translates as ‘my crazy life’. 

Moradian was handed a 16-year jail sentence in 2011 for his role in the Golden Gun syndicate which trafficked more than 300kg of cocaine into Australia in 2005/06, but did not serve the full term.

The driver’s seat window of Alen Moradian’s car (pictured) was riddled with gunshots

Police swarmed Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east after Alen Moradian was ambushed last week

Heavily tattooed associates of Moradian, including a man with ‘Death’ tattooed on his forehead, and bikie figure Jesse Vella (third from front) paid their respects to the late gangster

Jesse Vella (pictured front) attended the funeral with other Comanchero members, having patched over from the Rebels last year 

Moradian was farewelled at the Assyrian Church of the East on Wednesday morning. The aftermath of the funeral in pictured

The drug lord had several Chinese tattoos on his right hand, which have been interpreted and decrypted. 

‘The two smaller characters on the index and middle fingers mean either ‘king’ or ‘kingdom’ depending on the direction they are read,’ an expert said. 

‘The first two larger characters from left to right in the photo say ‘war’ and the third is a character that can mean ‘scheme, plan or seek’ and could have a variety of meanings when combined with the fourth character obscured by the wine glass.

‘One possibility is that it’s part of the word strategist, and that the whole phrase means ‘military strategist/tactician’.’

There is also a possible double meaning with a shortening of the murdered criminal’s name. 

‘Because the character is pronounced ‘Mou’ in Mandarin Chinese, said like the word ‘Mow’ in English, it could also be a phonetic representation of the name ‘Moradian’,’ the translator said. 

Moradian was buried at Pinegrove Memorial Park in Minchinbury after his funeral at Greenfield Park.

Speaking on Wednesday, his wife blamed the police for her husband’s death as she laid him to rest.

Natasha Moradian (pictured centre) said her husband would still be alive if he had been allowed to leave the country when he learnt he had a price on his head last year

Natasha Moradian is pictured wiping away tears as her murdered husband is buried at Pinegrove Memorial Park in Minchinbury on Wednesday 

The Order of Service from Alen Moradian’s funeral shows the cocaine trafficker with his head on the shoulder of his wife, Natasha 

Natasha Moradian (pictured centre) said the police should have allowed her husband to leave Australia

Ms Moradian said he would still be alive if he had been allowed to leave the country when he learnt he had a price on his head last year.

‘With the heaviest of hearts, we laid my husband to rest today,’ she said.

‘What makes it even sadder is that this could have been prevented if the police force granted my husband approval to travel overseas or at least interstate.’ 

Moradian, who was on parole for importing 40kg of cocaine when he was executed, was refused permission to alter his reporting conditions so he could flee NSW.