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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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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
Sydney plumber Darcy Francesco Jenkins was nabbed at the border and arrested by Indonesian police on Monday.

He stopped for cigarettes moments before a deadly ambush. It was the clue police needed

Investigators in Bali, and diplomats from Australia, are scrambling to piece together how a clutch of Australians came to be at the centre of one of the most violent shootings in Bali’s history.

  • Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch
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
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
Sydney man Darcy Jenson has been arrested by Indonesian police over the fatal Bali villa shooting.

Identities of three Australians charged with murder over Bali villa ambush revealed

The Australian government is urgently seeking further information from local authorities after the arrests of the men, who could face the death penalty if tried and convicted in Indonesia.

  • Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch
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Sanar Ghanim, 34, after being shot in Bali on Saturday night.

Australian arrested in Bali over fatal shooting ambush at villa

Indonesian police say they have detained two men over the shooting that left Zivan Radmanovic dead and underworld-linked Sanar Ghanim seriously injured.

  • Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch
Sanar Ghanim, 34, after being shot in Bali on Saturday night.

‘Wanted him dead’: Bali ambush survivor leaves hospital as manhunt continues

Bali police are still scouring the holiday destination for fugitive gunmen suspected of shooting two Australians at a luxury villa, and the survivor is remaining tight-lipped.

  • Amilia Rosa and Sherryn Groch
Experts warn street violence has been gamified in the digital age.

‘Zombie killers’ and the ‘lost boys’ of Melbourne’s warring youth gangs

Youth crime waves aren’t new, but experts warn street violence has been gamified. And it’s escalating, with more teens from middle-class backgrounds involved.

  • Sherryn Groch
Alleged Alameddine crime network boss Ali Elmoubayed arrives at Parramatta Local Court.

‘You should play lotto’: Alleged gangland boss’ lucky escape from brazen shooting

The man police allege is the head of the notorious Alameddine crime network in Australia evaded, by five minutes, the attack on his Sydney home.

  • Riley Walter

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