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Police patrol Northland shopping centre in Preston the day after a wild machete brawl forced bystanders to intervene.

‘Parasites’: How organised crime is feeding off the youth gang crisis

Gangland bosses are recruiting disaffected youths for “freelance” crime, and rewriting the rules of the underworld.

  • Sherryn Groch

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ABF stopped Hamad’s estranged wife with cash and high-end Rolex watches at the border as she was boarding an international flight out of Australia.

The ex-partner of a crime boss was stopped at the border. Her luggage was a luxury treasure trove

The former wife of a tobacco war kingpin was clutching a gold Rolex at the airport, but an Australian Border Force tip-off led to even more.

  • Sherryn Groch
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
Mohammed Akbar Keshtiar was gunned down outside his apartment building in South Yarra.

‘Finish the job’: Gunman shot ‘Afghan Ali’ as he lay critically wounded in South Yarra street

Narre Warren man Adris Kheyali, 23, was refused bail as prosecutors reveal they intend to rely on an unnamed witness and phone data to link him to Mohammed Keshtiar’s murder.

  • Melissa Cunningham
Joseph “Pino” Acquaro was gunned down in Brunswick in March 2016.

Murder charge against man accused of killing gangland lawyer dropped

Vincenzo Crupi has left court a free man after a prosecution in which he was accused of murdering Joseph “Pino” Acquaro in Brunswick in 2016 was abandoned.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Chris Vedelago

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
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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
The West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne.

Companies on public projects exposed in CFMEU federal police probe

More businesses with ties to bikies and the underworld have been revealed as the gangland corruption scandal deepens.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert
Mark Mladenich, left, and his late brother Richard, who was murdered in St Kilda in 2000.

The unsolved murder that started an underworld war

An execution on May 16, 2000, wasn’t exactly headline news – but it was the first murder that began the Underbelly crime war, which would result in 16 killings over 10 years.

  • John Silvester
Jeff Pope serves The Age democracy sausages at AEC hq in Melbourne.

This cop found himself at the centre of the Lawyer X scandal. Now he’s running the next election

Jeff Pope might have fronted the media plenty of times for Victoria Police but he’s never really talked about himself – or his run ins with Nicola Gobbo. Until now.

  • Sherryn Groch

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