Sydney businessman John Gasovski was in line to pocket $5000 for an interstate drug run before he was shot in an execution-style killing last year, police will allege.
The father-of-four had told his wife he was going to Canberra on a business trip in June last year.
He never made it back to their Arncliffe home in Sydney's south.
A ranger found the 48-year-old's body at a Jamberoo lookout in the Illawarra region on June 15 - three days after his wife reported him missing.
After an 11-month investigation, the man accused of killing him, truck driver Glen Roland Dunstall, was arrested this week.
In a police fact sheet to be tendered in court, investigators will allege before his death, Mr Gasovski met with Dunstall at a truck stop at Sutton Forest on June 9.
It was allegedly arranged for the pair to travel to Canberra where a large cannabis haul would be picked up and transported back to Sydney.
Mr Gasovski, who was allegedly to be paid $5000 to make the trip south, was found with a single gun shot wound to the head at the lookout in Budderoo National Park.
Mr Gasovski's van was found abandoned on June 23 at Pheasants Nest.
Dunstall, 46, appeared in Wagga Wagga Court on Wednesday charged with murder and will front court in Nowra next month.
The investigation of Mr Gasovski's alleged murder was taken over by the NSW Organised Crime Squad after it emerged the death was linked to a probe into drug supply and manufacturing.
It will be alleged Mr Gasovski was involved in buying glassware to make drugs prior to his death.
A series of raids as part of the organised crime squad drug investigation unearthed drug labs and an array of substances in Sydney last year.
Four people were charged with drug offences as a result.
After his death, Mr Gasovski's wife described him as a man with a good heart in an emotional tribute.
"I stand before you as a wife who has lost her husband, as a mother of four children who have lost their father," Jackie Gasovski told a press conference in July last year.
"The pain we are feeling since John's death cannot be described in words."
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