More than $30,000 cash, mobile phones, computers and electronic stun devices were all allegedly seized during the searches. Following his arrest, police charged Mr Abbas with being an accessory after the fact to murder, knowingly participating in a criminal group to assist crime, acting with intent to pervert the course of justice and unlawfully bringing anything into a place of detention. Police will allege in court Mr Abbas facilitated and co-ordinated the provision of false affidavits on behalf of others, and passed on information relating to the alleged murder between numerous people. Police searched the lawyer's home in Monterey on Tuesday, in their investigation into the alleged murder of Brayden Dillon. Credit:NSW Police Police will also allege he took a mobile phone into a correctional facility so an inmate could use it.

Refused bail, Mr Abbas was due to appear at Central Local Court on Wednesday but the matter was adjourned until Thursday. The lawyer is the seventh person to be arrested in connection with Brayden’s death on April 14 last year. He has previously represented high profile clients including deceased former Comanchero boss Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi. Brayden Dillon was shot dead in his bed in April 2017. It is understood he is one of a number of criminal lawyers and others allegedly associated with organising false affidavits administered on behalf of key suspects.

To date, the investigation has identified the involvement of such "conduits" to hide evidence and to use excessive payments to obtain copies of the brief of evidence and fact sheets. With more arrests expected, the number of people charged with links to the teen’s death could still reach 10. Brayden was asleep in his bedroom in the two-storey home in Glenfield, in Sydney's south-west, which he shared with his mother, her husband and his two younger siblings, when a masked intruder forced his way in and shot him in the right side of his head. In July last year, then-26-year-old Conrad Craig was charged with firing the weapon. He is in custody awaiting trial. Since Mr Craig’s arrest, homicide investigators have alleged an emotionally charged motive behind Brayden’s killing, while steadily targeting various players who allegedly planned, financed and carried it out.

At the time of Brayden’s death, his older brother Joshua was in custody awaiting trial, having been charged with murder over the stabbing of Adam Abu-Mahmoud, 18, during a street fight in 2016. While Brayden played no role in Adam’s death, police allege he was killed "purely as revenge for the alleged actions of his brother Joshua". Loading Among the other key identities charged in the investigation so far are Adam’s uncle Abdul, and Adam’s father Mohamed. Abdul was arrested on October 18, after an arrest warrant was issued by police last month.

He had been living overseas, allegedly supported by funds in excess of $50,000, sent by his brother via Western Union transfers to help him in avoiding arrest. Abdul, 33, remains in custody, charged with organising and financing Brayden’s murder. He is an associate of Mr Craig through the Brothers 4 Life gang. Mohamed has been charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder and perverting the course of justice for allegedly arranging falsified affidavits on behalf of other people, in relation to their location and alibis at the time of Brayden's death. A police information sheet alleges that more than $60,000 was paid to a "conduit" of Mr Craig to obtain copies of "evidence and facts sheet", which were ultimately provided to Mohamed.

It alleges a number of requests were made of Mr Craig about the start of 2018, "to provide a false affidavit absolving Abdul and a number of other known persons of their involvement in the murder of Brayden". Police allege Mohamed directed Torek Ayoub to meet people known to the investigation more than once, between July 10 and April 4, in relation to false affidavits. During a meeting on April 4 with a "conduit" outside Anita Gelato in Chippendale, Mr Ayoub was stopped by investigators and found to be in possession of an affidavit signed by Mr Craig. The "conduit" confirmed that he had arranged the signed affidavit when he visited Cessnock Correctional Centre earlier that day, stating that he was "requested to obtain these affidavits by Torek Ayoub and he believed the affidavits were true and correct", and was unaware of any payments having been made. Police have also gathered evidence of Mohamed allegedly fishing for information about the "wanted status" of his brother in December last year, which "supports the allegations that [he] believed that his brother ... was involved in the murder of Brayden".