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Thi Kim Tran was abducted from her Sydney home and found dead in a burnt-out car.

‘Didn’t deserve this’: Tributes flow for Sydney woman kidnapped and found dead in car

Loved ones have shared their pain over the death of Thi Kim Tran, believed to have been innocently caught up in a drug-linked revenge mission.

  • Clare Sibthorpe

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Former Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu was shot dead in Sydney’s inner west last year.

‘Borrowed’ Mercedes possible motive for alleged inner west murder, court told

Yusuf Nazlioglu was ambushed and shot up to eight times as he got out of his car in the underground car park of his apartment complex.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
Kazem Hamad seems out of reach to Australian authorities.

Illicit tobacco ‘cartel’ created by exiled kingpin to monopolise black market

An agreement has been reached to allow once-warring illegal tobacco syndicates to unite under the control of Kaz Hamad.

  • Chris Vedelago
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
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
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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
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

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