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Underworld lawyer Sarah Tricarico leaves Melbourne Magistrates’ Court earlier this year.

Gangland lawyer cleared of attempt to hinder police investigation

Tony Mokbel’s longtime solicitor, Sarah Tricarico, has had charges that she instructed others to delete encrypted messages dropped. 

  • Erin Pearson

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Tony Mokbel walks free from court again after major drug sentence slashed

The gangland figure has been resentenced on appeal over a drug conviction he received in 2012.

  • Erin Pearson
Tony Mokbel arrives at court in early September.

Tony Mokbel cleared of some serious drug trafficking charges over Lawyer X scandal

The Court of Appeal has quashed one of the infamous criminal’s convictions for masterminding an elaborate drug syndicate, saying the case was hopelessly tainted by the Lawyer X scandal.

  • Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola
Tony Mokbel in May.

Mokbel’s naked ambition: How a drug kingpin sought to expose an undercover cop

Gangsters naked in the toilet of a suburban pizza restaurant? Tony Mokbel’s plan when he was a fugitive in Greece was meant to show just who in Melbourne was trustworthy. It didn’t work.

  • John Silvester
Darren Hafner: Claimed he made an honest mistake.

The downfall of a drug racket: An underworld drama

You might think that having lost a house to Tony Mokbel, Darren Hafner would have sought an alternative income stream. But he was nothing if not persistent.

  • John Silvester
Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel walked from custody earlier this year.

Mokbel receives government payout for savage jail bashing

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has had another legal victory after receiving an undisclosed financial settlement over an attack in Barwon Prison in 2019.

  • Cameron Houston
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Mokbel wearing a wig at the time of his arrest in Greece.

Crooks who zigged when they should have zagged

He remembered to floss but forgot to duck. Here’s our list of 10 of the underworld’s biggest blunders.

  • John Silvester
Nicola Gobbo (left) with Tony Mokbel outside court in 2004.

Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo selling Melbourne apartment

The barrister-turned-informer is selling her bayside apartment while in hiding, as a verdict looms in her compensation suit against the state.

  • Sherryn Groch
Underworld lawyer Sarah Tricarico leaves Melbourne Magistrates’ Court earlier this year.

Gangland lawyer’s court victory as licence suspension quashed

A judge has found there was only a flimsy basis for the suspension of Sarah Tricarico, whose clients include Tony Mokbel.

  • Melissa Cunningham
Former Purana taskforce chief detective Jim O’Brien (centre) outside court in 2012.

Police officers involved in ‘criminal enterprise’ in Lawyer X scandal unmasked

Two police officers found by a court to be part of a “joint criminal enterprise” with Lawyer X to manipulate the justice system and put drug kingpin Tony Mokbel behind bars have lost a legal battle to keep their identities secret.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson

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