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Thi Kim Tran was abducted from her Sydney home and found dead in a burnt-out car.

Sydney woman murdered over husband’s organised crime links, police say

A drug lab allegedly connected to a criminal group linked to the murder of Thi Kim Tran has been raided.

  • Riley Walter and Perry Duffin

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A car is removed from Welfare Ave North in Beverly Hills after a dead body of a woman was found inside.

Drug rip-off behind woman’s savage kidnap, murder: police

A gang abducted and killed a Sydney woman because they suspected someone close to her had stolen their drugs, police believe as they hunt the killers.

  • Perry Duffin
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
Nadal Acherkouk was gunned down in Surry Hills on Friday evening.

Brazen plot against underworld figure foiled before Surry Hills murder

Nedal Acherkouk was shot dead on a busy inner Sydney street in front of Friday night diners. Six months ago, he fought off another attack in public.

  • Perry Duffin
The scene of the shooting in Surry Hills on Friday night.

‘We’re coming for you’: Search for underworld figures after Surry Hills shooting

A major search operation is under way after one man was shot dead and a suspected getaway car was found torched in Kensington.

  • Amber Schultz, Riley Walter and Penry Buckley
Police files reveal the damage done to the home of Jordan Shanks, aka FriendlyJordies, in what police call an organised crime arson attack.

Inside the ‘organised crime’ arson attacks on FriendlyJordies’ Bondi home

A stolen Mercedes, cloned plates, a bikie stabbing and two arson attacks – a police file released to the Herald outlines the alleged underworld attack.

  • Perry Duffin
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Rafat Alameddine is believed to be in Lebanon.

International manhunt over alleged Sydney gangland murder plot

Rafat Alameddine and John Bayssari are wanted for allegedly conspiring to murder their gangland rival, Ibrahem Hamze, pictured centre, in a foiled North Sydney assassination attempt.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Slain underworld figure Tarek Ayoub.

‘He lived by the sword, he died by the sword’: How the ‘Angel of Death’ got his name

Tarek Ayoub’s body was found riddled with bullets in a quiet Sydney street. Police are hunting multiple gunmen over an execution with all the signs of a professional hit.

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NSW police arrest a man (left) in January over an alleged plot to kill members of the rap group OneFour (right).

‘Airtasker for crooks’: Contract killings becoming big business

Business in Sydney’s underworld is booming, as criminal networks outsource their killings.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Two homes in St Helens Park, on Briggs Place, were targeted by suspected arson attacks and a shooting since May 1.

A drive-by shooting and two flaming cars: The Sydney street under siege

A shooting and two suspected arson attacks have a suburban Sydney street on edge as police investigate suspected outlaw motorcycle gang links.

  • Perry Duffin

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