Players in the Middle-Eastern organised crime world have come and gone over the past decade. While some are now in prison, hiding from their enemies or dead, others have risen through the ranks. Here’s a who’s who of Melbourne’s top gangsters.
Crime boss George Marrogi used 15 separate consignments of tea trolleys over a two-year period to smuggle billions of dollars worth of drugs into Melbourne — and he planned it all from his cell in Barwon Prison.
The rise and fall of former criminal powerhouse George Marrogi’s family centred drug importation syndicate.
Those boomers and millennials who think members of Gen Z are allergic to hard work haven’t visited the inner city McDonald’s store where one young entrepreneur is grinding away on a lucrative side hustle.
Damaged vehicles are being held for ransom by smash repair companies until the owner coughs up huge fees in a practice known as “car-napping” — and in some cases it’s “a sh-t-fight” to get the car back.
A man’s identity remains a mystery five decades after children discovered his body washed up in a river on Christmas Day. But these clues could lead to a major breakthrough.
Tony Mokbel has dodged serious convictions for a long time, paying patsies to be crime middlemen as he paid jockeys to rig races, and 20 years after the brutal murder of Mick Marshall — as the gangland king prays in church — questions linger.
A 22-year-old man believed to be involved in the ongoing tobacco wars has driven himself to hospital with gunshot wounds after being targeted in a brazen daylight shooting in Melbourne’s north.
No one in the police or underworld spheres seriously believes the slaying of someone of Mohammed “Afghan Ali” Keshtiar’s standing could allegedly be done by one young bloke all on his own initiative.
Two men have been charged over $25m arson attacks on blind factories in Bayswater and Kilsyth after the pair was allegedly caught on CCTV dousing the sites in fuel.
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