The grieving widow of the Australian gunned down in a suspected gangland hit in Bali has broken her silence to reveal her heartbreak at telling her six children their ‘loving dad’ is dead.
Zivan ‘Stipe’ Radmanovic, 35, was shot dead while Sanar Ghanim, 34, was injured but survived the attack which is believed to be linked to Melbourne’s underworld feuds.
Radmanovic died in front of his wife Jazmyn Gourdeas, 30, in the toilet of the rented villa where they were staying in Munggu, in the Badung Regency in Bali’s south.
He had 175 Australian court appearances to his name when he died, while Ghanim also has long links to organised crime in Melbourne.
But Ms Gourdeas has now spoken out for the first time almost two weeks after the attack to reveal her family’s grief, with a plea for kindness in ‘this tragic time’.
‘This is a tragedy,’ she said in a handwritten note read out by her Balinese lawyer.
‘Please be more kind, we have six children.
‘My husband was a loving man and the best dad in the world – now I have the unimaginable task of going home to tell them that he’s no longer here.’
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Grieving widow Jazmyn Gourdeas has spoken of her heartbreak at telling her six children their ‘loving dad’ is dead after Stipe Radmanovic (pictured together) was gunned down in a suspected gangland hit in Bali
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Zivan Radmanovic (pictured with his wife, Jazmyn Gourdeas) was shot dead at a villa in Munggu, in the Badung Regency
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Ms Gourdeas said Stipe Radmanovic was ‘a loving man and the best dad in the world’
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She also asked for privacy while she and her family grieve the death of her husband.
Her plea comes after Daily Mail Australia revealed her sister’s own links to the underworld and another gangland execution less than six months ago.
Daniella Gourdeas was linked on social media to slain Melbourne gangster Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim.
She and Jazmyn’s brother Dimitri had arrived in Bali with the couple to celebrate Jazmyn’s 30th birthday just two days before he was shot dead.
Abdulrahim was shot dead in Melbourne in an ambush by a gangland hit squad, but had been a regular on her social media, frequently praising her photographs online.
He was brutally executed in January as he drove out of an underground car park at the Preston apartment block where he was secretly living.
Five months later, she was a key witness to her brother-in-law’s execution in Bali.
Daniella told Bali Police how she woke up as the gunmen burst into Ghanim’s bedroom and she heard an ‘explosion’.
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Jazmyn Gourdeas has spoken out for the first time almost two weeks after the attack to reveal her family’s grief, with a plea for kindness in a handwritten note read out by her lawyer
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Daniella Gourdeas (pictured) has links to Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim, who was shot dead in Melbourne in an ambush by an underworld hit squad in January, and also witnessed the brazen execution at a luxury Bali villa earlier this month
Daniella Gourdeas has links to slain gangster Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim (pictured)
She said she then heard more gunshots and a window being smashed as the hit squad ran from room to room in the villa before she fled for her life.
‘The witness [Daniella] ran out of the villa where she saw two motorcycles [or scooters] parked outside while she heard more gunshots,’ added the police officer.
‘[She ran to] the main road where she asked for help.’
By the time bystanders had calmed Daniella down and taken her back to the villa, police were already on the scene.
Her sister Jazmyn had also been asleep at the villa when she awoke to the sound of her husband screaming around 12.15am.
The mother-of-six cowered behind bedsheets as a man in an orange jacket and an accomplice opened fire on her husband in the bathroom, she told police.
Shortly afterwards, she heard further gunshots and then heard Ghanim screaming from a separate room after he was gunned down in his bedroom.
With her husband already dead, Ms Gourdeas tried to stem Ghanim’s bleeding until emergency services arrived.
After the shooting, the suspects allegedly travelled across Indonesia in a bid to flee the country
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Sanar Ghanim, 34, (pictured) was blasted with bullets but survived the attack believed to be linked to Melbourne’s feuding Middle Eastern crime syndicates
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Sanar Ghanim (right) is the former partner of Melbourne underworld figure Carl Williams’ stepdaughter Danielle Stephens (left)
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Ghanim was discharged from hospital in a wheelchair last week, nursing a bandaged leg. Bali authorities say they have all three survivors under close watch.
Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, the stepdaughter of notorious Australian drug trafficker Carl Williams, who was murdered in Victoria’s Barwon jail in 2010.
But Ghanim’s long-standing association with Melbourne’s criminal underworld goes deeper than just family ties.
In 2014, he was jailed following the shooting of fellow associate Serkan Kala after a dispute at a gym escalated. He and a co-accused pleaded guilty.
On Wednesday, Bali detectives arrested three Australian men Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 37, Darcy Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, after an intense five-day police manhunt.
Jenson was arrested at Jakarta Airport as he tried to get through an e-passport reader to board a flight to Singapore and then on to Cambodia.
Tupou and Coskun managed to make it to Cambodia but were identified by Interpol who arrested them in Phnom Penh and flew them back to Indonesia.
Detectives said a sledgehammer, believed to have been supplied by Coskun, was used to smash down the door of the villa moments before the alleged attack.
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Midolmore Tupou was arrested after his tattoos led police to trace him and his co-accused
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Another alleged member of the hit squad gang Mevlut Coskun (pictured) was arrested in Cambodia
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Darcy Francesco Jenson (pictured) was arrested in Jakarta, about 18 hours’ drive west from the scene of the shooting
Badung Police Chief Arif Batubara said the discarded hammer was discovered by officers at the entrance of the villa and quickly became a key piece of evidence.
‘Starting from there, we launched an investigation into the barcode on the hammer’s purchase,’ he told reporters during a press conference on Saturday.
Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene.
It comes after Bali Police revealed on Wednesday how the gang allegedly fled across Indonesia after the shooting, escaping the scene on motorbikes before switching cars twice on an 18-hour, 1200km getaway to Jakarta.
Detectives revealed the suspects were first traced through Tupou’s distinctive tattoos which were first picked up on CCTV as he bought cigarettes near the villa where the attack unfolded.
The tattoos were clearly visible in pictures of Tupou as he was being pushed in a wheelchair through Jakarta Airport after he was deported back to Indonesia.
Tupou has a combination of traditional Tongan artwork inked onto his skin and the 676-international telephone dialling code for Tonga in huge numbers down his shin.
Detectives are now working with forensic experts as they pore over evidence from the crime scene, including blood samples, the sledgehammer, bullet casings and projectiles, and face coverings.
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Zivan ‘Stipe’ Radmanovic, 35, was shot dead but his wife Jazmyn Gourdeas (right) survived the attack
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The alleged killers – one was said by a witness to have had a ‘thick Australian accent’ – were last seen fleeing the villa (pictured) on motorbikes
Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene
The crime squad is also looking at more CCTV footage, a vehicle and travel history, said a police spokesman.
The three can be held without charge for months while police investigate the killing.
Once they present their dossier of evidence, the three will be handed over to a prosecutor who will then send them to Bali’s notorious Kerobokan Prison.
They will then face a court hearing to be formally charged, and kept at Kerobokan throughout their trial until a verdict and possible sentence.
They are being investigated for premeditated murder which under Indonesian law can carry the death sentence.
The Bali attack comes after exiled Melbourne tobacco overlord Kazem ‘Kaz’ Hamad is suspected by Australian underworld figures of ordering the hit on Abdulrahim.
Abdulrahim reportedly went into hiding in May 2024 after narrowly escaping an ambush outside his northern suburbs home, where gunmen shot at him 17 times.
In his last weeks alive, Abdulrahim was said to have become ‘something of a ghost’ as he moved between Melbourne, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
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Police had also seized cash, passports, vehicles and a sledgehammer as part of their investigation
Bali police display evidence related to the shooting of two Australians, at a police station in Badung, Bali, Indonesia
It’s understood Abdulrahim flew into Melbourne the day before his as-yet unsolved murder.
Hamad rules his criminal empire from the Middle East with violence and extortion and underworld sources say the ruthless kingpin has the means to order an offshore hit.
Abdulrahim’s dwindling allies were believed to have gone into hiding themselves after his murder.
