Arabic version: الشرطة تعرض مكافأة قدرها مليون دولار في قضية سليمان

According to ABC News, NSW Police are offering a $1 million reward for information that could help locate Mahmoud Sleiman, a missing father detectives suspect was murdered by organised crime figures more than two decades ago.

Mr Sleiman was 24 when he was last seen outside his home in Greystanes, in Western Sydney, on February 2, 2003. Police said he had been speaking with a man in a white Jeep Grand Cherokee before getting into the vehicle and being driven away. His family reported him missing later that day.

The family said that when they called Mr Sleiman’s mobile phone later that night, they could hear a man screaming before the call ended. Investigators have information that Mr Sleiman had been involved in disputes with criminal rivals before he disappeared, and detectives believe he was killed shortly after he was last seen.

Searches have included bushland at Moxham Reserve in Northmead and parts of the nearby Parramatta River in February 2004. A coronial inquest in June 2007 found that Mr Sleiman had died, likely on the day he vanished, but did not determine a likely cause of death.

The State Crime Command’s Unsolved Homicide Unit, under Strike Force Motoren, has taken over the investigation. No-one has been charged and Mr Sleiman’s body has not been found. His partner Jody and son Billy were expected to make a public appeal for information on Wednesday.