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The mystery man who deposited human faeces near the elevators in the lobby of Sydney’s tallest office building has been unmasked as a child refugee turned gangster.
Mohammad Qais Niazy was once considered a core member of the Afghani Murderers gang and is a former Hells Angels associate who was supposed to be deported a decade ago.
He is perhaps most notorious for taunting police by posting images on social media of himself with wads of cash and snorting white powder while on bail over firearms charges.
Niazy was arrested in the city on Monday when he was charged with behaving in an offensive manner and granted bail on the condition he not go within 2km of Sydney Town Hall.
Just hours later, the 35-year-old walked into the $2billion local headquarters of global software giant Salesforce and left human faeces in the lobby of the Circular Quay skyscraper.
Police were notified about 2.15pm that a man had ‘committed an offensive act’ in front of the elevators after workers in Salesforce Tower made the unpleasant discovery.
Niazy, from Sydney’s western suburbs, was arrested about 11.50pm on Tuesday at Circular Quay ferry wharf and taken to Day Street police station where he was refused bail.
He faced court on Wednesday charged with behaving in an offensive manner in or near a public place, destroying or damaging property worth less than $2,000, stalking/intimidation and breaching bail.
The man who deposited human faeces near the elevators in the lobby of Sydney’s tallest office building has been unmasked as child refugee turned gangster Mohammad Qais Niazy (above)
Niazy is most notorious for taunting police by posting images on social media of himself with wads of cash and snorting white powder (above) while on bail over firearms charges
Police were notified about 2.15pm on Monday that a man had ‘committed an offensive act’ in front of the elevators after workers in Salesforce Tower (above) made an unpleasant discovery
Niazy pleaded guilty to the first three offences, the bail breach was established, and he was sent to a mental health facility for assessment then returned to police custody.
He was listed to appear again before acting judge John Favretto at Bail Division Court 7 on Thursday.
Niazy was an early member of the Afghani Murderers, also known as the Afghani Mafia Family (AMF), which was formed to fill a void created by the destruction of the Brothers 4 Life gang from 2013-14.
He had earlier come to attention after being arrested over a public place shooting at Merrylands in Sydney’s west in April 2012, when Niazy was described as a junior Hells Angels associate.
Those charges were eventually no-billed two years later in April 2014 when Niazy was found unfit to plead due, it is understood due to mental illness.
Later that year, Niazy was charged with a series of serious weapons offences including possessing a shortened firearm and contravening a firearm prohibition order.
While on bail for those charges, Niazy posted pictures on Facebook of himself using $100 notes to spell out ‘f*** all cop’ and snorting lines of a white powder.
Another image showed him inhaling from a pile of a white, crystallised substance which had also been used to form the words ‘f*** all b*****’.
Niazy was once considered a core member of the Afghani Murderers and is a former Hells Angels associate. Niazy (right) is pictured with one-time Nomads bikie leader Simon Tajjour (left)
Niazy posted a photograph of himself snorting a white crystallised substance in December 2014, shortly after he was released from prison under strict bail conditions
Niazy uploaded a photo of himself posing with the then leader of the Nomads bikie gang, Simon Tajjour alongside the caption: ‘The head of AMF Nd the head of NOMADS!!’
He also used social media to lash out at law enforcement officers responsible for his arrest of the firearms charges, including the Middle-Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOC).
‘F*** the meoc,’ Niazy wrote. ‘f*** the gang squad. f*** the afp (Australian Federal Police). f*** the crime commision f*** them all hehehehehehehe…’
In March 2016, Niazy was fined $600 for intimidating a police officer and using offensive language the previous year.
He was found not guilty of the 2014 firearms offences in September 2016 after a District Court hearing.
Niazy had been charged with further firearms offences in September 2015, which resulted in him being jailed for a minimum one year and nine months in June 2017.
He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and since his late teenage years has repeatedly been admitted to mental health facilities.
Niazy is an Afghan national whose family fled to Pakistan after the Taliban came to power, living at first in a refugee camp before settling in Peshawar.
While on bail, Niazy posted pictures on Facebook of himself using $100 notes to spell out ‘f*** all cop’ and snorting lines of a white powder
Niazy was an early member of the Afghani Murderers, also known as the Afghani Mafia Family (AMF). He is pictured with a pile of $50 notes and a bag of white powder
At age eight, he was reportedly kidnapped and held captive for three years.
Niazy’s parents believed their son was dead and were granted global humanitarian visas to come to Australia in 2002.
A fortnight after the parents arrived in April that year, they learnt Niazy had been found alive and he joined them in Australia in June 2005 on a child migrant visa.
It was revealed in January 2016 that then-immigration minister Peter Dutton had cancelled Niazy’s permanent residency visa on character grounds.
Mr Dutton had expected Niazy would be deported when his court matters were finalised and he completed any prison sentence.
Instead, upon finishing his sentence for the 2015 firearms offences, Niazy was sent to Maribyrnong Immigration Centre in Melbourne, then Brisbane Immigration Transit Centre.
Niazy’s application for a protection visa was refused in October 2018, but in February 2019 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal found he was a refugee.
The tribunal further found Niazy, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, was owed protection as a person suffering from severe mental health issues.
Niazy (above) came to attention after being arrested over a public place shooting at Merrylands in Sydney’s west in April 2012
His application for a protection visa was refused in January 2020 and his current visa status is unclear. Home Affairs has been contacted for comment.
Niazy, who has sometimes used the first name Ace, was fined $220 in September 2024 for possessing a prohibited drug.
Three months later, he was placed on an 18-month community corrections order for break and enter and destroying property worth less than $60,000.
In January last year, Niazy was convicted in his absence and fined $1,100 for entering a casino as an excluded person.
The following month he was jailed for a minimum four months for domestic violence-related assault occasioning actual bodily harm and stalking/intimidation.
That sentence was reduced upon appeal in December to a 15-month community corrections order.
Salesforce Tower was completed in late 2002 and at 263m tall the 55-storey structure in George Street is renowned as the tallest commercial building in Sydney’s central business district.
The US-based Salesforce, which provides tools to help businesses manage relationships with their customers, acquired the tower’s naming rights after taking tenancy of 13 floors.
Salesforce Tower (above) was completed in late 2002 and at 263m tall the 55-storey structure is renowned as the tallest commercial building in Sydney’s central business district
In February this year, Singapore-listed investment trust OUE REIT poured $357.2million into acquiring a 19.9 per cent interest in the tower, after Mitsubishi Estate Asia sold out.
Other major tenants include TikTok and JLL, while the project was developed by Lendlease with backing from Ping An and Mitsubishi Estate Asia.
As reported by the Australian Financial Review, the occupancy of Salesforce Tower – which was at 99.2 per cent in December last year – is seen as a barometer of Sydney’s office market.
Salesforce’s local public relations department was contacted for comment regarding the lobby incident.
Daily Mail asked how Niazy had gained access to the premises, whether Salesforce would be conducting an investigation, and if there was a security lapse.
Rumours the human faeces might have been deposited as part of a ‘dirty protest’ by an office worker proved unfounded after the arrest of Niazy.
Salesforce is the world’s dominant cloud CRM platform, helping companies manage customer data, sales and marketing in one system.
It is now aggressively repositioning as an AI-first company, rolling out generative tools and ‘agentic’ software, known as Agentforce, that can autonomously handle business tasks.
That strategic change has come with fallout for the workers affected, with thousands of layoffs being linked to automation, though there has also been criticism that AI promises are masking cost-cutting and over-hiring.
