Convicted Aussies and their drug crimes revealed
Blue and white collar workers, including cops, tradies, teachers, and real estate agents have all committed crimes because of their involvement with drugs. See a list of some of them.
Crime In Focus
45kg meth haul: Huge Melbourne drug bust
A cartel’s audacious bid to flood Australia with methamphetamine has been foiled by the Australian Federal Police in a transnational operation.
Comancheros’ new drug base to cash in on coke and ice
The Comanchero OMCG and organised crime gangs are mobilising to a new foreign powerbase to get drugs smuggled into Australia from Mexican cartels. See the video.
Sneaky ‘rips’: Brazen way crims get drugs to Australia
This is how organised crime gangs are flooding the world with illicit drugs through their networks of sleeper agents and trusted insiders.
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Top law investigator suspected of being ‘Aussie mafia mole’
One of Australia’s top law enforcers is under investigation amid suspicions he was allegedly secretly working with the mafia and may have compromised some of our biggest crime cases.
Mafia infiltrated Aussie organised crime at all levels: report
The lawyers who represented David Eastman – the man wrongly convicted of top cop Colin Winchester’s murder have hit out at the AFP and their handling of claims it was a mafia hit.
Feared Aussie gangster silenced by mafia assassin
He was one of Australia’s most-feared gangsters until he was gunned down in a hail of bullets. More than 30 years later, we reveal who was behind Pasquale Barbaro’s murder.
‘No this is not me’: alleged mafia hitman speaks out
News Corp Australia tracked down ‘The Shepherd’ – the man a secret police report claims is behind the murder of former top cop Colin Winchester. This is what he told Charles Miranda.
Secret report links mafia with assassination of top Aussie cop
An explosive secret police report names two alleged assassins sent by the Italian mafia to kill former Australian Federal Police Assistant commissioner Colin Winchester.
Silence over top cop’s assassination is deafening
The 1989 assassination of top cop Colin Winchester remains one of Australia’s most high profile unsolved murders and yet there seems little interest by the AFP in reopening the case.
How mafia boss was nailed three decades after bombing
It took 28 years, a million-dollar undercover budget and the most covert sting in police history to finally nail notorious mafia boss Domenic Perre.
Where are Qld’s alleged crooks snared in AN0M sting?
A little over one year after the AN0M ‘sting of the century’ smashed drug rings around the world, here’s what’s happened to the alleged Queensland underworld figures snared in the operation.
‘I’m very smart about what I do’: Chilling acts of Hannah’s killer that shocked coroner
Hannah Clarke’s estranged husband was so clinical and calculating in his murderous act that even the coroner leading the inquest into Hannah’s death was shocked to discover just how far-reaching and convincing his manipulations were.
The missed opportunities to deal with Rowan Baxter
Police missed crucial opportunities to hold Rowan Baxter to account before he went on to kill his ex-wife and children.
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