Organised crime
Analysis
Naked City
Victoria shouldn’t be the soft-touch state for bikie gangs
In 2016, Victoria introduced laws that were supposed to stop serious crooks. But the Justice Department put in exceptions that left more holes than grandad’s undies.
- by John Silvester
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Often studied, rarely prosecuted: How the mafia gets away with it in Australia
The Australian Federal Police’s media release this week about the extent of the Italian mafia and its latest attempts to curb it was impressive. But is it a case of history repeating?
- by Nick McKenzie
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China
Police probe into Chinese money laundering syndicate headquartered in Australia
Australian law enforcement agencies have intelligence suggesting Chinese entities are supplying the vast majority of precursor chemicals used to make illicit drugs on the market.
- by Nick McKenzie and Anthony Galloway
Money laundering, exclusion processes at centre of Queensland casino probe
A Qld probe into Star Entertainment is focusing on claims of money laundering and processes around the exclusion of certain people, a parliamentary committee has heard.
- by Sean Parnell
Mobile phone store manager charged over ‘dial-a-dealer’ drug syndicate
The manager of a western Sydney mobile phone store has been charged in connection with an alleged drug syndicate run by the Alameddine network.
- by Jenny Noyes
Murder and mourning as gangland violence takes its toll in Sydney
Warring families and control of the lucrative drug trade are reasons behind the 13 fatal shootings in two years in south-west Sydney.
- by Sally Rawsthorne and Jenny Noyes
Senior NSW ministers begin work on new laws after secret police briefings
The NSW government began working on new laws dealing with proceeds of crime and unexplained wealth after secret briefings from top-ranking police.
- by Alexandra Smith, Tom Rabe and Clancy Yeates
Editorial
Editorial
Organised crime thrives because NSW cannot follow the money
A secret briefing by the NSW Assistant Commissioner of Police has thrown the spotlight on the gaping holes in money laundering legislation.
- The Herald's View
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Gambling
Organised crime rampant across Australia, secret briefings reveal
There are also claims NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet ignored calls for counter-crime reforms from the offices of two of his senior ministers.
- by Nick McKenzie
Gunned down Comanchero was warned last week of bounty on his head
Police insist they have not lost control of organised crime after a second underworld figure was shot dead in a fortnight and a third man was sprayed with 10 bullets and remains in hospital.
- by Sally Rawsthorne and Jenny Noyes
‘Not a bad place to dump a body’: Receding waters reveal gruesome secrets in US
The reservoir on the Colorado River is about a 30-minute drive from the mob-founded Las Vegas Strip. As water levels fall, human remains are being discovered.
- by Ken Ritter