The Sydney father at the centre of an alleged murder plot outside his children’s daycare centre had allegedly fallen foul of his employers, a transnational crime syndicate based in Vietnam, in a dispute over hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Herald can reveal that the man who was to be killed by three alleged guns for hire, Huy Tran, was at odds with a group who call themselves The Final Crime Family, who believe he owed them $200,000.

Detectives had previously canvassed whether Tran’s loyalties were in question, or whether his employers believed he had stolen drugs. Organised crime squad commander Detective Superintendent Peter Faux has said he believed it was “highly likely” that a syndicate allegedly run by Sydney-born man Daniel Rodney Badger was linked to the attempt on Tran’s

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