A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
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Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
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65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
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65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
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65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
Tag Archive: pasquale barbaro
65 year old middle-man John Higgs rolling in ecstasy with 26 year old woman, court hears
A CRIMINAL once dubbed a “Mr Big” of the drug world was living a “high life” of drinking and having sex with women before he was busted over the world’s biggest ecstasy haul, a court has heard. John Higgs was an indispensable middle man in the scheme involving 15 million ecstasy tablets valued at $122…
Jason Moran’s nephew Blaise Armour charged with drug trafficking
THE nephew of slain gangland figure Jason Moran will appear in court next month charged with drug trafficking offences. Blaise Armour was arrested after detectives searched his South Yarra home last month. The 20-year-old has been charged with possessing material to traffic a drug of dependence and will appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on August…
Justice Minister Jason Clare reflects on organised crime and corruption following sentencing of Pasquale Barbaro
by the federal Minister of Justice the Hon Jason Clare: Two weeks ago four men were convicted of the biggest attempt to import ecstasy anywhere in the world – 15 million tablets hidden in cans of tomatoes. Australian Federal Police intercepted more than 185,000 phone calls and text messages. They tracked the drugs from Italy…
Griffith’s Pasquale Barbaro and Saverio Zirilli given massive sentences over Australia’s biggest ecstasy importation bust
A “FARMER” believed to be Australia’s biggest drug trafficker and behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul has been jailed for life with a minimum 30 years in what is believed to be the most significant prison term of its type in Victoria. Pasquale Barbaro, 50, the son of a Calabrian immigrant, and his cousin Saverio…
Mafia don Pasquale Barbaro and Black Uhlans bikie John Higgs join forces to create massive organised crime syndicate
AUSTRALIAN bikie John Higgs and Calabrian mafia boss Pasquale Barbaro don’t have much in common. Higgs is a founding member of the Melbourne chapter of Black Uhlans bikie gang and Barbaro is a leading member of the Italian organised crime gang responsible for murdering anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay. The odd couple were prepared to put…
Italian tomatoes and Colombian coffee betray Pasquale Barbaro on Melbourne’s docks
THE long slippery slope towards a life sentence began for Pasquale Barbaro in June 2007, when customs officials on Melbourne’s docks singled out a container of Italian tinned tomatoes. When X-rays showed ”image anomalies”, the customs officers opened them, uncovering 15 million ecstasy tablets weighing 4.4 tonnes – Australia’s biggest ever drug bust and the…
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