An Iranian acquaintance of a senior Coffin Cheater has been cleared of misleading Western Australia’s corruption watchdog after he was accused of giving false evidence about a vicious bikie brawl. In another bloody nose for the Corruption and Crime Commission, Mohammed Alamdar from Mosman Park was acquitted of a charge of giving false or misleading…
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Liam McHugh Manager Energy Security Research Programme Key Points Lucrative opportunities and the pervasive culture of organised crime have resulted in a multi-billion dollar criminal oil enterprise. In a vicious cycle, politically weak petro-states create an environment for illicit and unrecorded oil trading. Simultaneously, criminalisation of the energy sector leads to increased fragility in…
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Money laundering has long been the business of beefcake villains in action movies, but for the Australian Federal Police and member countries of the Asia Pacific Group, it’s serious business. Stopping the cleaning of ‘dirty’ or illegal funds into legitimate resources able to be moved and used by criminal organisations remains one of the key…
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An international operation aims to stop drug manufacture overseas for export to Australia, write Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker. One of Australia’s most wanted crime figures, Comanchero bikie drug supplier Hakan Ayik, is suspected by authorities of setting up a “super” drug laboratory in India capable of exporting tonnes of methamphetamine around the world. The…
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ARTARMON’S leafy streets in Sydney’s lower north shore are worlds away from the opium-producing poppy fields of war-torn Afghanistan. But the rise of Iranian organised crime, flourishing internationally and entering Australia, is now reducing that gap. This month 43-year-old Iranian-born Australian Mohammad Dashti walked into an Artarmon storage unit housing several pallets of fruit juice…
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3 June, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
As the UK begins working on offensive cyber technologies, the US will consider making state-led computer sabotage an “act of war” that may warrant a physical response, according to reports. The Pentagon’s new definition is expected to be revealed in a strategy paper this month, which finds that the Laws of Armed Conflict also apply…
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16 May, 2011 by
St Michael in Uncategorized
The young man stood before the judge, his usually neatly trimmed hair now long enough to brush the collar of his prison jumpsuit. Glenn Duffie Shriver had confessed his transgressions and was here, in a federal courtroom, with his mother watching, to receive his sentence and to try, somehow, to explain it all. When the…
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