“The charges are now being withdrawn,” Gatto’s lawyer Martin Amad said on Monday.

“It’s going to be listed in court for the official application to take place as soon as possible, but we’ve been notified by the Crown that having taken over the matter, they’re now seeking a date for a special mention in court to have the matters withdrawn.”

The OPP declined to comment because the matter was still before the courts.

The court documents filed by Mohammad detail how he opened Sub Club nightclub in South Yarra in 2000, and allege that Gatto and his associates collected $2000 cash weekly, between 2000 and 2019, and organised $200,000 worth of family functions, including his daughter’s birthday, but never paid for them.

The documents allege Gatto then pressured Mohammad to sign over the nightclub business and later made him hand over the keys during a meeting at the Old Paper Shop Deli in South Melbourne in March 2004.

In a TikTok video, Mohammad had branded Gatto a “weak dog”.

“You owe me money, you piece of shit. You didn’t turn up after I invite you, you run away … I’m looking for you, I’m f—ing looking for you everywhere … you take money from weak people, now I’ll f—ing take it from you,” Mohammad said in the 50-second video posted in June last year.

Gatto responded by sending a 1000-word SMS to friends and business associates in which he repeatedly referred to Mohammad as “king maggot”.

“You make all these threats and ultimatums. I, Mick Gatto, in my nearly 70 years on this planet, I have never met a lower human being than you,” Gatto said in the SMS on July 20, 2023.

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