The Cocaine Inc. podcast produced by News Corp Australia and The Times shows how criminal gangs are exploiting our financial system to hide their profits. Serious and organised crime costs Australia up to $60 billion each year. Money is hidden from police and the Tax Office and “laundered” through seeminglyContinue Reading
Elle Edwards was meant to be wrapping Christmas presents with her dad. But her phone pinged with a text. The 26-year-old’s mates wanted her to come out for a drink. It was Christmas Eve. They were at the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey Village, on the Wirral peninsula, just across theContinue Reading
Senior figures at Crown Casino have responded after Crown Sydney was allowed to keep its casino licence. NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC) chief commissioner Philip Crawford made the announcement on Tuesday morning after months of speculation of the future of the casino’s licence. The state’s independent Liquor and Gaming AuthorityContinue Reading
Police say a Chinese gang has been “disrupted” in Melbourne as four men were charged over an alleged money laundering syndicate. The alleged Melbourne-based gang is accused of using a money transfer business to move more than $39m in illicit cash to China using a “sophisticated network” of associates betweenContinue Reading
Police have seized more than $2.3m in cash and cryptocurrency from a Gold Coast island home as two Russian nationals face court charged with money laundering. The 49-year-old man and 46-year-old woman will face Southport Magistrates Court following raids at the Hope Island home and a Surfers Paradise solicitor’s officeContinue Reading
Kay Lang had just moved to the Gold Coast in 2012 to study when she met a charismatic entrepreneur at a nightclub and was instantly swept off her feet. Damion St Patrick Baston introduced himself as a 30-year-old American restaurateur who had grand plans to expand his business interests inContinue Reading
Massive government contracts for the nation’s offshore processing system were won by companies suspected of bribery, money laundering and drugs and arms smuggling, a scathing review has found. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil seized on the findings, accusing the now opposition leader Peter Dutton of overseeing a “regime being usedContinue Reading
Massive government contracts for the nation’s offshore processing system were won by companies suspected of bribery, money laundering and drugs and arms smuggling, a scathing review has found. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil seized on the findings, accusing the now opposition leader Peter Dutton of overseeing a “regime being usedContinue Reading
A Bachelor star charged over her alleged role in an international drug supply and money laundering syndicate looks almost unrecognisable after spending months in jail on remand. Marjorie Griffiths rose to prominence when she appeared on the latest season of the reality TV show The Bachelor, but she has swappedContinue Reading
More than 4400 electric gaming machines will be added to NSW’s cashless gaming trial, including clubs which have raked in some of the state’s highest pokies profits. 4485 machines across 20 clubs and eight hotels, across 17 metro LGAs and seven regional areas have been conditionally approved to participate, subjectContinue Reading