THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
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ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
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Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
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Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…
Attero Taskforce targets Rebels bikies nationally
Alliances between Mexican drug cartels and Australian bikie gangs are growing, investigators say, as a senior Comanchero bikie faces charges over an alleged key role in an international drug ring. The 39-year-old Southbank man was charged on Thursday with several drug-related offences including importing a commercial quantity of cocaine and importing methylamphetamine. Another man, a…
Joint law enforcement taskforce shuts down Victoria’s biggest ever amphet lab operation and international organised crime syndicate
POLICE have shut down possibly Victoria’s largest ever drug lab and smashed an organised crime syndicate after daylight raids on two homes in suburban Melbourne. Police said the houses were set up to produce tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Seven men aged between 26 and 44, including two Canadians and one Vietnamese…
Tag Archive: australian federal police
Operation Denney smashes organised crime cocaine syndicate in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast
THREE men have been arrested and charged following an investigation into an organised crime syndicate on the Gold Coast. A 45-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 38-year-old were arrested yesterday when officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Crime Commission (ACC) caught them allegedly trying to buy one kilogram of cocaine. A statement from…
ACLEI and the politics of resourcing anti-corruption agencies
AT AUSTRALIA’s Customs and Border Protection Service, 2009 and 2010 were good years to be bad. Several state police probes or employee background checks had unearthed nuggets of information suggesting some customs officers who wore the agency’s light blue shirt by day were, out of hours, running with outlaw bikie gangs and Middle Eastern crime…
International drugs operation leads to AFP crushing organised crime syndicate operating in Qld and NSW
Australian Federal Police have smashed an international organised crime syndicate planning to import drugs into the country. A 44-year-old Brisbane man has been charged along with five people in Japan, after a joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police into an international drugs operation. The investigation – involving authorities in the United States, Vietnam, Japan…
15 corrupt Customs officials linked to Sydney Airport drug haul
Terrorists? Tick. Boats? Tick. But what of organised crime? AFTER a decade in which border security has been a priority, it is incredible that customs officers are alleged to be key players in illicit drug imports. A six-month Age investigation has found Sydney Airport officers – up to 15 of them – are implicated in…
ACLEI releases report regarding corrupt AFP officer
An Australian Federal Police agent found to have links to organised crime is facing the sack after a covert investigation by anti-corruption authorities. The corruption watchdog is due to release a report on Friday that finds an AFP agent wrongly accessed and handed out sensitive police information. It also finds he wrote character references under…
Multi-millionaire drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida blames Melbourne’s Kheir family for life of organised crime
When multimillionaire accused drug kingpin Mohammed Oueida was arrested, police said he was living in a $2.8 million mansion with an eight-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis court and wine cellar, and had a Ferrari 360 Spider, a light plane, and $6 million in a Swiss bank account. Today he is being held in…
Australian Crime Commission blames high Aussie dollar for surge in offshore organised crime syndicates
THE high Aussie dollar is attracting drug traffickers and offshore organised crime syndicates on a scale never seen before. Customs officers are seizing a record average of 374 packages of illicit drugs a week in the mail and the Australian Crime Commission blames the dollar – and people willing to pay top dollar for their…
Credit card details of 500,000 Australians stolen by international organised cybercrime gang linked to wrestling champ Gheorghe Ignat
THE credit card data of up to 500,000 Australians has been stolen, writes Ken McGregor. Shockwaves have been sent through the banking sector following the arrest of an international organised crime gang that allegedly committed the biggest theft of credit card data in Australia’s history. While the banks agreed to shoulder the burden of the…