His isn’t a household name like his pal Tony Mokbel, but Rob Karam was just as prolific at importing drugs. He got busted after trying to do a massive deal with an undercover cop. And there was yet another sting to come. SERIES LATEST
The infamous Tomato Tins drug bust was a tale of bungling mobsters, botched hits and a nasty case of bad luck for the smugglers. It also saw dozens jailed and 15 million pills seized. But could one of law enforcement’s greatest ever success stories now be brought undone?
When they laid drug kingpin Carl Williams to rest the truth about several unsolved gangland murders were buried with him. Did he also take secrets about Nicola Gobbo to the grave?
How did a secret police file which exposed Nicola Gobbo’s former client Terry Hodson as an informer end up in the hands of the Melbourne underworld?
As bullets flew and crims turned on their own during Melbourne’s gangland conflict, the police had an unlikely but powerful weapon. Secretly, one woman shaped the course of the underworld war — now her betrayals are set to bring the legal system to its knees.
Mass murderer James Gargasoulas’ delusions led him to believe a policeman was planning to kill him in the weeks before his deadly rampage, but police who knew him from years earlier say he was calculating, not crazy.
CONVICTED police double murderer Jason Roberts is keen to give evidence in person to a judicial review of the credibility of new alibi evidence in his case, the Supreme Court has heard.
HIGH-ranking members within Victoria Police made reports to an anti-corruption body about the shooting of career criminal Graeme Jensen which remain unresolved to this day.
A GUN that police claimed was brandished by Graeme Jensen when officers shot him dead in 1988, prompting the Walsh St murders, was planted on the bank robber after his death and has disappeared, a former detective alleges.
A NOTORIOUS hitman was the secret informer blamed by police for leading them into the fatal confrontation that provoked the Walsh St murders of two constables which shocked Australia almost 30 years ago.
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