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Police arrested a Sydney accountant on May 13 over alleged fraud and money laundering on behalf of organised crime network members.

Accountant charged with laundering money for senior crime figure

The accountant facilitated money laundering and fraud on behalf of members of the Alameddine organised crime network, police will allege.

  • Josefine Ganko and Perry Duffin

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NSW gets a new budget next week. Here’s what we already know.

What we already know about this year’s NSW budget

A ferry wharf linking the new Sydney Fish Market is among $70 million in proposed transport upgrades announced on Monday.

  • Penry Buckley
Police claim a tobacco heist at Condell Park turned into a violent kidnapping where Alameddine associates cut the toe off a captive while stealing a tonne of black market product.

Tobacco and toe-cutting: The black market driving gang violence

Black market tobacco “rips” are fuelling gang violence in Sydney. Court files show the way brutal tactics are used to secure market dominance.

  • Perry Duffin
CCTV from night of fatal Belmore stabbing.

Mum’s plea for justice as cops hunt hooded figure over ‘horrific’ murder

James Pakis, 34, was senselessly stabbed in a Sydney apartment. His mother has vowed to be “the voice” of her son as she fights to get him justice.

  • Josefine Ganko and Hayley Francis
Daryl Maguire faces a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment.

Daryl Maguire found guilty of misleading corruption watchdog

The former Liberal MP is facing up to two years in jail after being found guilty of giving misleading evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

  • Amber Schultz
Detectives have released CCTV as part of an ongoing investigation into the alleged fatal stabbing of a man in Sydney’s south-west earlier this year.
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Police release CCTV as investigations continue into fatal Belmore stabbing

Detectives have released CCTV as part of an ongoing investigation into the alleged fatal stabbing of a man in Sydney’s south-west earlier this year.

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Samimjan Azari shields himself with a chair as the gunman opens fire in the Turkish restaurant.

Gangster has survived four murder plots: How Samimjan Azari became Sydney’s most marked man

For years, Azari has worked his way up the pecking order of the notorious Alameddine crime network. It could cost him his life.

  • Riley Walter, Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
Tegan Wagner, pictured in 2006, during the trial of the Pakistani gang rapist brothers.

‘Anonymity is not acceptable’: Gang rape survivor calls for alleged offenders to be unmasked

Tegan Wagner survived a gang rape in 2002. She says despite their age, the alleged teenage perpetrators of a recent attack in Sydney’s south-west should be identified.

  • Amber Schultz
Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex.

Trials set to be aborted amid damage to NSW’s busiest court complex

Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex is expected to be shut for at least four weeks after a burst water main caused flood damage to part of the building.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
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‘Quite alarming’: Sydney families sent letter about alleged child sex offences

More than 1200 families received the email from police notifying them about a man who worked with children, who has been charged with criminal offences.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Josefine Ganko

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