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A Swedish teenager was hiding out in Australia after his parents tried to prevent him from falling in with gangs - but he allegedly spent his time recruiting hitmen from a home in Sydney’s west.

Teen accused of hiring hitmen revealed as Swede living in Sydney’s west

A 15-year-old boy accused of recruiting hitmen for the Scandinavian underworld was living with family in Sydney.

  • Perry Duffin

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A 15-year-old teenager is arrested in Sydney after allegedly recruiting hitmen for gang warfare in Nordic countries.

Teen in Sydney ‘facilitated murder plots’ for European gangsters

A Scandinavian teenager has been arrested in Sydney for allegedly helping European gangsters organise murders.

  • Perry Duffin
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How the fake caravan plot exposed divisions between NSW Police and AFP

As politicians and the media fretted over a suspected terror plot, suspicion and secrecy was growing between the law enforcement agencies trying to find the culprits.

  • Perry Duffin and Amber Schultz
Former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias, chicken kebab shop owner Hussein Faraj and the logo for their NuCoin.

‘Worthless tokens’: The crypto coin, a chicken kebab shop and the missing millions

Serial fraudster and former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias and his long-term associate Hussein Faraj are being investigated over their crypto-company.

  • Kate McClymont
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the threat during a visit to the Northern Territory on Friday.

Albanese reveals legal proceedings over ‘serious incident’

The prime minister said he contacted Peter Dutton to discuss an alleged terror plot targeting the opposition leader that was revealed on Thursday.

  • Matthew Knott
Mark Latham listens to jockey Chad Schofield while trackside at Randwick racecourse last year.

‘Grave case of hurt feelings’: Mark Latham’s behaviour under investigation by former top cop

Racing NSW has engaged one of Australia’s most senior law enforcement figures to investigate, after the club said one of its senior officials was on the receiving end of “alleged unprovoked verbal abuse”.

  • Chris Barrett
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Deputy Police Commissioner David Hudson.

NSW Police told to sign NDA as part of caravan investigation

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said the AFP made an investigator sign an NDA before receiving details about tip-offs into an explosive-laden caravan.

  • Christopher Harris
Thales’ Blue Sentry has been successfully tested by the US Navy, its CEO will announce on Monday

One Sydney factory’s answer to foreign interference, narco-subs and people smugglers

Designed to work as a “wolf pack”, groups of the semi-autonomous systems can create permanent surveillance of coastlines over thousands of kilometres.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Police attended the aircraft on landing and arrested a 45-year-old man.

Man allegedly attempted to open plane door on flight to Sydney

Passengers and crew had to restrain a man from opening the doors of a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney on Saturday.

  • Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
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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