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31 May 2025
Wangaratta Chronicle
Footage of terrifying encounter at Wangaratta tobacco shop released

FRIGHTENING ENCOUNTER: Ahmad Al Essawi visited Ramseen Gifts on Murphy Street on 4 July, 2023, threatening a Wangaratta worker to close the store or it would be burnt down.

THE attempted extortion of criminal syndicate standover man Ahmad Al Essawi at Wangaratta has been released.

The 23-year-old was sentenced to two years behind bars at Wodonga Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday after he pled guilty to threatening two female tobacco shop employees in Wangaratta and Wodonga on 4 July, 2023.

Both incidents at Wodonga Gifts and Murphy Street’s Ramseen Gifts we...

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