Salim Mehajer's family has become one of the biggest developers in the Auburn council area after Lebanon-born father Mohamad Mehajer quit his job at the Arnotts biscuit factory and got into the building trade.
Mehajer snr was sentenced to 3½ years in jail in December 2013 for conspiring to cheat and defraud the National Australia Bank of more than $3 million. The court found a Mehajer loan application included false documents intended to present his financial position as "much rosier than it really was".
2015- "Mr Mehajer got two big Christmas presents on the same night," said Cr Campbell. "It was outrageous." Fire damages Auburn property belonging Salim Mehajers sister
2014 - Auburn councillor Salim Mehajer owns house damaged in suspicious blaze
1993 - 2015 - NSW Labor politician Eddie Obeid and his family have been hit by more bad luck, with police investigating a suspicious fire (...yacht) at their Bellevue function centre in Restwell Street, Bankstown Eddie Obeid's Bankstown function centre hit by a suspicious fire