ORGANISED crime groups in Eastern Europe are using a multimillion-dollar online car-sale fraud to prey on some of the Hunter’s most vulnerable residents, according to the State Crime Command’s Fraud and Cybercrime Squad. The victims have handed over between $5000 and $15,000 each in exchange for second-hand motor vehicles that never arrive, with one elderly…
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IN A worldwide operation codenamed “Ghost Click” the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has closed an internet fraud ring that infected more than 4 million computers including “tens of thousands of Australian computers”‘ it can be revealed. In a statement, the assistant director in charge of the New York station of the FBI Janice Fedarcyk…
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by John Burnett Australia is a huge island, with stretches of lonely, rocky coastline that extend for thousands of miles. What’s more, there are lots of harbors and airports. In short, opportunities are plentiful for an enterprising Mexican drug trafficker to move his product 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to service the vibrant new…
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Police have seized a haul of the drug “ice” estimated to be worth $52 million and arrested two Canadian nationals in Sydney. The Joint Organised Crime Group (JOCG) arrested and charged two men aged 65 and 36 after stopping their car in Rosehill on Wednesday. They had earlier seized 52kg of an illicit substance, believed…
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ORGANISED crime costs the economy $15 billion a year because Australians are among the world’s biggest users of illegal party drugs, a report says. Underworld activity could fund a $1000 Christmas cheque for every adult, or annually pay for a brand new hospital in each Australian capital city. The Australian Crime Commission estimates serious crime…
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Romanian and Asian organised crime syndicates importing high-grade heroin and crystal methamphetamine into WA have been smashed this week in separate police operations. After investigations involving the WA organised crime squad, 680g of heroin with a street value of about $500,000 and 1.3kg of crystal methamphetamine worth more than $700,000 were seized in Perth and…
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Authorities say there could be more arrests in a cross-border drug operation that smashed the Queensland branch of a multi-million-dollar tri-state heroin trafficking ring. Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission says 17 people arrested in the state, and three in NSW, face more than 150 charges. The CMC says the decade-old Romanian syndicate, responsible for trafficking…
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