Zivan ‘Stipe’ Radmanovic and Sanar Ghanim shot in Bali: Hitman arrested

A man has been arrested after two Australian underworld figures were shot in a suspected gangland hit in Bali.

Zivan ‘Stipe’ Radmanovic, 35, and Sanar Ghanim, 34, from Melbourne, were shot just after midnight on Saturday at a villa in Munggu, in Badung Regency in Bali’s south.

Radmanovic died at the scene after he was shot twice in the chest and once in the foot, while Ghanim was left fighting for life in Kuta’s BIMC Hospital after he was shot seven times and beaten.

A man believed to be the hitman is being interrogated at Badung Police Station following the fatal shooting.

‘We have arrested one alleged perpetrator at 3am and he is being interrogated at Badung Police Station now,’ a police source told Daily Mail Australia.

A second gunman remains on the run.

Radmanovic’s father Brian was stunned by the news his son had been murdered.

‘I’ve lost my son, I’ve lost my only son,’ Mr Radmanovic said at his Melbourne home on Sunday.

Sanar Ghanim was seen leaving Kuta’s BIMC Hospital in a wheelchair (pictured) on Sunday

Ghanim (pictured) was shot and beaten in the attack which saw Zivan ‘Stipe’ Radmanovic killed in Bali on Saturday

Bali police spokesperson Senior Commander Ariasandy said that both airport and regional police, responsible for monitoring all entry and exit points on the island, have been given a description of the second suspect. 

He said they were ‘paying close attention to ensure the suspect doesn’t escape the island’.

The killers – one of whom was reportedly speaking with a ‘thick Australian accent’ – were last seen fleeing the villa on scooters, according to a witness. 

On Sunday afternoon, Ghanim was released from hospital and was seen being pushed out in a wheelchair, surrounded by several staff, before he was helped into the back of a car, his leg heavily bandaged. 

Ghanim and his partner have been living in Bali for some time. Radmanovic and his wife – the pair have six children – are understood to have gone there in the past two months to celebrate Radmanovic’s wife’s 30th birthday.

Police found 17 bullet casings and 55 bullet fragments at the scene. 

Former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina said while the attack was brazen, it was also very calculated. 

‘They’re not concerned about witnesses, (with) the fact that she’s remained alive,’ he said. 

‘You can imagine a situation as this, is highly volatile. They run in, they’re highly obtained with their adrenaline and they’re rushing out.

‘The fact they’ve had access to a firearm, it appears they’re well-connected. They have information of where they were living, in their villa, so they’ve certainly done their homework.’

Both victims were known to Australian law enforcement. 

Ghanim previously served time in prison over a 2015 shooting and shares a child with Danielle Stephens, stepdaughter of slain drug lord Carl Williams.

Radmanovic had 175 court appearances to his name. He was in Bali with his wife, Jazmyn Gourdeas, and their children to celebrate her 30th birthday. Ghanim and his wife, identified by police as Daniella, had been living in Bali.

Her sister, Daniella Gourdeas, is linked on social media to assassinated Melbourne gangster Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim. 

Ghanim is said to have been in the villa with his wife, identified only by local police as Daniella, when the gunmen struck.

The Gourdeas family link to Abdulrahim comes five months after the notorious gangster was also gunned down in an underworld hit in a hotel car park in Melbourne’s north.

Police found 17 bullet casings (one pictured) and 55 bullet fragments around the villa where the men were shot

Radmanovic  was a career criminal with a lengthy list of 175 court appearances 

Bali Police fear the gunmen fled the island while officers rushed to the scene (pictured)

A Bali police detective said the kill order would have come from Australia.

‘There’s no way it’s a local dispute. It looks like a hit from Australia. They don’t go and kill foreigners over a local dispute,’ the investigator told the Herald Sun.

‘If they want to f— you up in Indonesia, they plant a pound of grass on you and get the locals (police) to sort it out.’ 

On the night of the brutal shooting, The Bali Tribune reported Radmanovic’s wife was asleep when she heard her husband screaming at 12.15am.

Peeking out from behind a blanket, she saw a man wearing an orange jacket and a second man gunning down her husband in the toilet.

Images from the villa show a man, believed to be Radmanovic, lying motionless next to a toilet. Moments later, Ms Gourdeas heard more gunfire before Ghanim screamed.

It’s understood Ghanim suffered seven gunshot wounds in his bed before Ms Gourdeas tried to stop the bleeding as they waited for emergency services to arrive.

‘[She] ran out of the room and shouted when she saw Sanar was bleeding and went back to the toilet to check her husband’s condition by checking his pulse,’ an unnamed Bali Police officer told local media.

‘After seeing the perpetrator escape outside the villa, this witness helped the victim of Sanar stop the bleeding.’

A fourth person in the villa – believed to be another family member – told police she saw a gunman in a green jacket wearing a mask and a helmet burst into their room.

She heard more gunshots and a window being smashed before the hit squad ran from room to room in the villa as she fled for her life.

‘Our team are still working on it,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘We have coordinate with the Immigration, the Australian Federal Police, the forensic team, and many other institution to uncover this case.’

Photos taken at the scene showed the area taped off, while a trail of blood stained the step at the doorway to the villa.

Radmanovic’s body was taken to Prof. Ngoerah Hospital in Bali for an autopsy.

Bali detectives fear the gunmen went straight to the nearby airport and fled overseas (pictured, officers at the scene)

It’s believed Ghanim was shot seven times during the attack (pictured, bullet holes at the scene)

‘The witness ran out the villa before 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 the down and taken her back to the villa, police were already on the scene.

Bali Police Chief Inspector Daniel Adityajaya said on Sunday they were liaising with Australian Federal Police on the investigation.