Tobacco
Breakthrough in tobacco war firebombing that killed Katie Tangey
Police have released an image of a suspect in the underworld-linked house fire that killed a 27-year-old burlesque performer in Melbourne earlier this year.
- Alexander Darling and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Legal cigarette sales have plummeted and that’s all good, right? Wrong
The tobacco black market is thriving and, as senior economics correspondent Shane Wright tells The Morning Edition podcast, that’s creating problems for all Australians.
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Vaping and black market tobacco burn $31 billion hole in budget revenue
Alcohol levies are raising more money for the budget than cigarettes as documents reveal Treasury was unprepared for the financial fallout from vaping and black market tobacco.
- Shane Wright
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Secret tobacco war briefings reveal authorities wasted years cracking down on illicit trade
Alerts circulated across state and federal agencies warned of large-scale tobacco smuggling into Australia, including some that may have been tacitly supported by Chinese government officials.
- Nick McKenzie, Serge Negus and Chris Vedelago
Death of the first innocent: How the government bungled the tobacco war
Police say Katie Tangey’s death was entirely predictable as violent organised crime gangs fought their tobacco turf war.
- Chris Vedelago, Marta Pascual Juanola and Rachel Eddie
Melbourne’s tobacco war claims the life of ‘completely innocent’ house sitter
A woman who died trapped in a burning home became the first civilian fatality in the gangland war over control of Melbourne’s illicit tobacco trade.
- Cassandra Morgan and Marta Pascual Juanola
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The tobacco war safe-zone where violent gangs are policing themselves
Criminal syndicates have called a truce over tobacco shops in one area of Melbourne as experts declare our crime-fighting strategy a failure that only a radical rethink can fix.
- Marta Pascual Juanola, Chris Vedelago and Lachlan Abbott
Police treating tobacconist fire south of Brisbane as suspicious
Emergency crews arrived to find the tobacconist fully engulfed in the early hours of Saturday morning.
- Courtney Kruk and William Davis
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Tobacco war kingpin making $1 million a month in ‘extortion tax’
Kazem Hamad’s crime syndicate now controls several hundred underground tobacco retailers, and it’s netting “monster” business for the underworld kingpin.
- Chris Vedelago
‘A growing issue’: Police work to stamp out Brisbane’s tobacco turf war
“One thing we don’t want to do is jeopardise the safety of innocent Queenslanders,” Police Minister Dan Purdie said.
- William Davis
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