Disgraced former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer will be back on the streets within weeks after almost five years behind bars.
He will be released next month after his bid for freedom was approved by the State Parole Authority on Monday.
Mehajer will need to follow a long list of strict parole conditions upon release, NCA NewsWire reported.
He will be banned from associating with outlaw bikies and cannot contact his victim or travel to the NSW Central Coast.
He must also report to a community corrections officer, undergo regular drug and alcohol testing, receive ongoing treatment from a private psychologist, and take part in domestic violence programs where directed.
Mehajer will be eligible for release on July 18.
The former deputy mayor of Auburn Council is currently serving a seven-year and nine-month sentence for a string of crimes, including violence against his former partner and forging his lawyer’s signature.
A community corrections pre-release report recommended Mehajer be released on conditional parole with supervision.
Disgraced former politician and property developer Salim Mehajer (pictured) will be released from prison within weeks
The former deputy mayor will be required to follow a long list of parole conditions
Standing in the way of his freedom was the corrective services commissioner, who opposed his release at a recent parole hearing.
The commissioner citing a risk of reoffending, his lack of attitudinal change and Mehajer’s continued denial of some of his crimes.
The parole board took into account that Mehajer had completed all possible programs in prison and believed his ongoing rehabilitation was better served in the community under the watchful eye of a psychologist and community corrections officers.
Mehajer has been behind bars since November 2020, when he was found guilty of two counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of making a false statement under oath.
He was found to have lied in affidavits and under cross-examination, which were used to secure his relaxed bail conditions.
The embattled politician returned to court in 2023 and was found guilty in two separate trial, one regarding fraud and the other domestic violence matters.
Mehajer was sentenced to a maximum of seven years and nine months for both cases.
In his domestic violence case, a jury convicted him of multiple counts of assault, one count of intimidation and one count of suffocation relating to his ex-partner.
Salim Mehajer has been behind bars since November 2020
The court heard Mehajer had punched the woman in her head during an argument in his car, squeezed her hand and crushed the phone she held, and threatened to kill her mother.
Just one month later, the jury in his fraud case found him guilty of two counts each of making a false document and using a false document.
He had created the false documents by forging the signatures of his solicitor, Zali Burrows, and sister.
Mehajer returned to court again in 2024 for his role in a staged car crash seven years earlier.
He pleaded guilty to 22 charges, including perverting the course of justice, making a false representation resulting in a police investigation, making a false call for an ambulance and negligent driving.
Mehajer had staged the car accident in west Sydney during October 2017 in order to delay his court appearance.
At the time he was due to front court for assaulting a taxi driver.
The former deputy mayor was sentenced to a maximum of two years for the offences, with a non-parole period of 16 months.
