Two men have been arrested after a Sydney underworld figure was shot dead in Vietnam.
Lorenzo Lemalu, 24, a senior leader of the notorious Coconut Cartel and former associate of the Alameddine crime family, was ambushed and shot outside a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday night.
CCTV captured Lemalu's final moments standing with a group on a footpath along a busy dining strip before he was gunned down at point-blank range in front of shocked diners.
Fellow Coconut Cartel associate Sam Sauni, 27, from Sydney's south-west, was seriously injured but survived.
On Tuesday, the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security confirmed in a statement that two suspects, believed to be Samoan nationals, had been arrested.
'Currently, law enforcement agencies are focusing on investigating, verifying, and strictly handling the individuals involved in accordance with the law,' a statement to ABC News read.
Police in Vietnam launched an investigation following the death of Lemalu, and released photos of two men they initially said were Australian nationals.
The pair, who officers said they would like to speak to, left Ho Chi Minh City in a taxi, before getting out near a supermarket in Tay Ninh, a town near the border of Cambodia, according to the police alert.
More to come.
Lorenzo Lemalu, a senior leader of the notorious Coconut Cartel, was ambushed with bullets outside a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday night
Two men have been arrested in Vietnam in connection with his death