Nomad bikie boss chasing 'the Australian dream' led him committing mortgage fraud to 'put a roof over his head' - because his criminal history meant he couldn't get a $1.3 million loan

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The locked-up leader of the Nomad bikie gang was just trying to 'put a roof over his young family' and 'live the Australian dream' of home ownership when he committed mortgage fraud, a Sydney court has heard.

Sleiman 'Simon' Tajjour and his wife Susan Nehme commissioned a friend to help Tajjour secure almost $1.3 million in bank loans in 2015, Burwood Local Court heard on Wednesday.

Tajjour wanted to buy a home in Greystanes for his wife and children but his criminal history had made it hard to secure a loan under his own name, AAP understands.

Nomad bikie gang leader Sleiman 'Simon' Tajjour (pictured left) has pleaded guilty to charges of mortgage fraud in attempt to chase the Australian home owners dream providing for family

The friend allegedly falsified her father's signature on one of the papers and the trio was charged.

Tajjour has pleaded guilty.

'He wanted to ensure his children had a family home,' Tajjour's lawyer Omar Juweinat told the court.

'It was something he had to do to live the Australian dream of owning your own home.'

Mr Juweinat questioned how much blame his client deserved in an era of dodgy bank managers.

'One might rhetorically ask where his level of culpability lies in light of the recent findings of the royal commission into the banking sector,' he said.

The court heard the fraud occurred while he was serving a good behaviour bond for breaching anti-bikie consorting laws.

Mouhamed and Sleiman Tajjour's house (pictured above) in western Sydney's Merrylands

Mr Juweinat said his client's role in the scheme was 'marginal but relevant' and called for a lengthy good behaviour bond, while the crown's prosecutor said Tajjour had applied pressure to other players in the process.

Tajjour is currently held on remand in a Nowra correctional facility while awaiting sentencing for his role in an alleged massive drug ring police say involves his cousins, the Ibrahims.

Nehme, who was too ill to appear in court on Wednesday, will be sentenced on Friday with Tajjour and a mortgage broker who worked on the loan.

Tajjour and Nehme will face Burwood Local Court on Friday on charges of bankruptcy fraud

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