A swarm of police raided up to nine homes in Sydney’s west early on Wednesday morning.
Officers have not confirmed why they searched properties, including homes in Guilford and Blacktown, but it comes just a day after a young Solami-Australian man was arrested for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack.
Ali Khalif Shire Ali was dramatically arrested on Monday and charged with trying to obtain a semi-automatic rifle to gun down revellers in Melbourne’s Federation Square.
A swarm of police raided up to nine homes in Sydney’s west early on Wednesday morning
Officers have not confirmed why they searched properties, including homes in Guilford and Blacktown
It is understood the raids in Sydney are not terror related but are in connection to identity theft and fraud, according to 9News.
A woman was arrested by Australian Federal Police at the Blacktown property.
Ali, 20, was reportedly targeted by ASIO because of his links to a radicalised 15-year-old boy who killed Curtis Cheng.
He was well-connected to Australian jihadist circles including multiple other terror suspects and extremist preacher Junaid Thorne.
Ali was also friends with Farhad Jabar, 15, who shot dead NSW police accountant Curtis Cheng outside the police centre in Parramatta in 2015.
A woman was arrested by Australian Federal Police at a Blacktown property
The raids comes just a day after a young Solami-Australian man was arrested for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack (pictured)
He once boasted to a group of Islamic extremists about how he had refused to speak to ASIO agents who offered him money for information about his links to Jabar.
Ali claimed agents offered him $200 for every tip he gave them about extremist activity in his community, but he refused to dob in Muslims because it was ‘haram’.
‘I know their tricks and whatever you say to them they will use as evidence against you,’ Ali said.
‘They start to get to the real questions, like who are your friends with, what do you think about ISIS, what are your thoughts about those groups.
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