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Mark Buttler is an award-winning crime journalist for the Herald Sun.

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Australia’s underworld is being controlled at unprecedented levels from overseas.

Australia’s biggest gangland names revealed

From senior Mafia figures to outlaw bikies, meet the hard men pulling the strings in Australia’s underworld.

Police & Courts

Comanchero bikie clubhouse targeted by arsonists

Police are investigating an early morning arson attack on a Comanchero bikie clubhouse in Clyde North.

Police & Courts

Postcard Bandit’s final freedom bid to kick off — this time it’s legal

A high-stakes legal bid to walk out of jail by Brenden Abbott, the nation’s most notorious armed robber and prison escapee best known as the Postcard Bandit, is about to hit the court.

Police & Courts

These are some of the bikies colours that could be banned.s

The dirty baker’s dozen: The bikie clubs police have in crosshairs

Police want new laws to stop bikie gangs displaying their club colours in public. The 13 clubs set to be affected boast links to multiple murders, international drug trafficking, standover work and other high-level crime.

Police & Courts

Dominic O'Brien has been identified as the victim of an alleged assault. Picture: Facebook

Man charged over Dominic O’Brien death

A man has been charged with murder over the death of photographer Dominic O’Brien in Footscray.

Police & Courts

The Hells Angels and the Comanchero have enlisted youth gangs 051 and Killa Block Squad, known as KBS, to help carry out drug trafficking. Artwork: Steve Grice,

The 13 bikie gangs facing colours ban in Victoria

Outlaw motorcycle gangs are set to be hit with new ban orders, prohibiting members from wearing their club’s name, logo or colours.

Police & Courts

CCTV footage captures an arson attack on a Glenroy tobacco store.

Architect of Melbourne’s tobacco war stays out of Sydney. Here’s why

Two gangsters operating from overseas while wreaking havoc in Melbourne and Sydney have struck up a powerful partnership.

Victoria

Police later arrested a 43-year-old Yarraville man, Lominja Friday Yokoju, who has been charged with intentionally causing injury.

Man dies in hospital after Footscray assault

Charges against a former immigration detainee freed under a High Court decision and arrested over a Footscray assault could be upgraded after his alleged victim died in hospital.

VIDEOPolice & Courts

Melissa Dutton fell victim to the new-age tech hack. Thieves stealing her car. Picture: Supplied

Gone in minutes: Tech behind huge surge in car thefts

A new-age technology hack which can be executed in a matter of minutes is largely behind a 47 per cent spike in car thefts across Victoria. Watch the video.

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Aussie arrested in Thai bust has links to sports stars

Former Sydney businessman Mark Dennis was among 13 foreign nationals arrested in a multimillion-dollar Asian boiler-room scam inquiry.

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