Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…
Category Archives: Vietnamese Gangs
AFP arrest five for selling stolen laptops
Five Australians have been charged for selling 288 laptops that were stolen from Sydney Airport. According to the Australian Federal Police, the group was part of an international criminal syndicate with operations in Vietnam. The laptops, worth approximately $600,000, were allegedly stolen from a freight facility at the airport. Apple and the Vietnamese National Police…
Anthony Tan arrested for murder of Rebels bikie Edin Smajovic
One of Australia’s most wanted men has been arrested at Sydney Airport over the fatal shooting of a bikie in 2009. Anthony Tan, 27, was arrested when he got off a flight from Vietnam just after 9:00am (AEDT), and has since been charged with one count of murder. He had been wanted since a shoot-out…
Asian Crime Squad revives cold case mystery disappearance of Nguyen Bach Quyen
Police believe the disappearance of a man from inner Sydney four years ago could be linked to an Asian organised crime ring. Asian Crime Squad detectives have been investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Nguyen Bach Quyen, who was last seen leaving his sister’s Waterloo home on the evening of Sunday May 18, 2008. His sister…
Asian organised crime drug syndicate rounded up during Strike Force Ascalon raids across Sydney
Six people have been charged, and more than $200,000 cash and five kilograms of heroin have been seized in raids across Sydney, police say. Four people – three men aged 32, 39 and 50, and a 38-year-old woman – were arrested at a Banksmeadow property during what police alleged was a drug transaction in progress…
Asian syndicates turn problem gamblers into drug mules
PROBLEM gamblers are being recruited from pokie rooms to run drugs interstate and overseas for Asian organised crime syndicates as a way to pay off their debts. Police and gambling counsellors say they are worried about a trend where vulnerable gamblers of all ages – particularly from Asian communities – are becoming drug mules. ”It…
Australian activities of Chinese crime organisations
The following is taken from A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Crime and Narcotics Center, Directorate of Central Intelligence in April 2003: Australia’s proximity to Southeast Asia opens it to the full range of criminal activities in which Chinese organized gangs and triads…
Australian Crime Commission Annual Report 2010-11 released
Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Annual Report 2010–11, which shows that the ACC disrupted 34 criminal groups and identified more than 50 previously unknown criminal targets last financial year. Mr O’Connor said the Report demonstrated the ACC’s success in working with partner agencies to…
Australian law enforcement community combines against organised crime syndicates
LAW enforcement agencies across the country will target cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking this year, as Australia’s strong economy makes it a magnet for criminals around the world. In a unique briefing, senior officials from Victoria Police, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and Customs told The Age that unprecedented co-operation…
Enforcer Gavin Preston linked to bikie shootings and Prisoners of War jail gang
A man released on bail in December on gun charges was arrested just weeks later over the ‘‘cold blooded’’ shooting of a man in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Age can today reveal Gavin Preston — reportedly questioned last year over the shooting of Bandidos bikie gang boss Toby Mitchell — now faces a string of…
Former rival crime groups join forces
THE face of organised crime in Australia is being transformed by the breakdown of traditional boundaries between rival ethnic crime groups and their replacement by a web of shifting alliances between formerly competing criminal networks. According to senior police and criminologists, recent investigations reveal that crime groups that traditionally worked independently — such as Chinese…