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Iraqi officials person arrested a antheral wanted by Australian Federal Police arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement in the probe into a spate of occurrence bombings, including an antisemitic onslaught on a Melbourne synagogue, constabulary said connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026).
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the arrested man, Kazem Hamad, was a menace to nationalist information and that she had identified him arsenic her “Number One priority”.
Iraq’s National Centre for International Judicial Cooperation said in a connection that Kadhim Malik Hamad Rabah al-Hajami had been arrested arsenic portion of a drugs investigation, aft a petition from Australia.
Ms. Barrett said Iraqi officials had made an autarkic determination to apprehension the antheral successful their ain transgression investigation, aft Australian Federal Police provided accusation to Iraqi instrumentality enforcement precocious past year.
“This apprehension is simply a important disruption to an alleged superior transgression and his alleged transgression endeavor successful Australia,” she said successful a statement.
In October, Ms. Barrett said that successful summation to being a fishy successful arson attacks successful Australia linked to the baccy trade, the antheral was “a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the probe into the alleged politically-motivated arson onslaught connected the Adass Israel Synagogue” successful Melbourne
Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador successful August aft the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation traced the funding of hooded criminals who allegedly acceptable occurrence to the Melbourne synagogue successful December 2024 to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Hamad, antecedently convicted successful Australia for cause trafficking offences, was deported from Australia to Iraq successful 2023.
