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Unlike banks and casinos, real estate agents don’t have to do due diligence checks on customers or report suspicious transactions.

Organised crime and armoured cars of cash: The dirty money pushing up Australian house prices

They looked like any other couple at the auction. But the Russians had a secret.

  • Sherryn Groch

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Kazem “Kaz” Hamad in about 2015.

‘Kaz tax’ hike: Illegal tobacco kingpin doubles his extortion fee to $5000

The “Kaz tax” is a protection payment extorted from tobacconists allowing them to sell illicit cigarettes smuggled into Victoria.

  • Chris Vedelago
Tony Mokbel arrives at a police station in Melbourne this week.

Why gangland figure Tony Mokbel’s drug trafficking conviction could be overturned

A gangland lawyer became a police informer, but the bad guys got what they deserved, right? Yet, this alleged perversion could see Mokbel cleared.

  • Tammy Mills

From gangland to Northland: What Tony Mokbel did on his first morning of freedom

The drug kingpin who once had his own fashion label opted for low-key sportswear, knowing the new accessory on his ankle – an electronic monitoring bracelet – would catch enough attention.

  • Sherryn Groch
Tony Mokbel leaves court on Friday.

‘Tony started the underworld’: The original gangland crime boss who survived and, eventually, beat the system

Gone from the streets but clearly not forgotten, news of Tony Mokbel’s release spread like wildfire throughout Melbourne’s underworld. But the reaction might not be what you think.

  • Chris Vedelago, Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola
Detectives arrest a man in connection with the shooting death of bikie ‘Afghan Ali’.

Man appears in court over alleged murder of notorious bikie

Mohammed Akbar Keshtiar was gunned down outside his apartment building in South Yarra almost two years ago.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Cassandra Morgan
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Ugochukwu George Anyakorah, a Nigerian living in Sydney, was working for a cyberscam syndicate and linked to the Buccaneers, a Nigerian campus cult, according to court documents.

The Nigerian ‘blood cult’ targeting lonely Australians with romance scams

A Sydney father was part of a Nigerian scam that took millions of dollars off lonely Australians, defrauded businesses and siphoned the money to a terrifying African gang.

  • Perry Duffin
An image of the man police want to speak to in relation to the fatal house fire that killed Katie Tangey.

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
Tony Mokbel arriving to court on Tuesday.

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel wants to taste freedom for the first time in 18 years

If released, Mokbel will be free for the first time since 2007, when he was famously arrested in Greece disguised in a wig.

  • Erin Pearson and Chris Vedelago
Sarah Benson takes over Sport Integrity Australia after a long career with the Australian Federal Police.

Sport’s new top cop warns of integrity risk from cocaine and criminal links

Former AFP chief forensic scientist Sarah Benson has also prioritised rebuilding trust in the global anti-doping system and the safeguarding of children in sport.

  • Chris Barrett

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