‘Familial generosity’: Fadi Ibrahim learns fate after gangster brother repays $600k

Fadi Ibrahim, a central member of the Kings Cross nightclub family, has avoided prison for an act of “familial generosity” after his underworld brother, Michael, repaid a loan with $600,000 sourced from a black market tobacco deal. Fadi, the younger brother of nightclub boss John Ibrahim, faced the Downing Centre District Court on Friday, seven years after he was arrested in Dubai alongside Michael in a multi-agency sting on crime syndicates. Michael, 46, and a slew of other organised crime figures are now spending decades in prison for varying roles in a series of MDMA and tobacco imports from the Netherlands which had been compromised by undercover officers. There is no suggestion John Ibrahim was involved in any illegal activity or wrongdoing, or that Fadi was involved in any of his brother’s underworld deals.