An accused tobacco war ringleader Majid Alibadi is seeking to be released from custody just days after $270,000 was allegedly delivered to his home, a court has been told. Mr Alibadi, 25, smiled at loved ones as he was escorted into the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday wearing a matchingContinue Reading
A Melbourne tobacco shop has gone up in flames, as police work to link whether it’s connected to escalating gangland tensions fighting for control of the city’s illegal tobacco trade. Emergency services rushed to Craigieburn Convenience Tobacco in Melbourne’s north at about 3.30am on Sunday morning following reports of multipleContinue Reading
A tobacco store was set alight in a targeted attack police believe is related to a spate of tobacco store fires over the past 12 months. Fire and police services were called to the Free Choice Tobacconist on Pier St, Altona in Melbourne’s south west about 4am after the allegedContinue Reading
Police are investigating after two shops were damaged by a suspicious fire believed to be linked to Victoria’s tobacco wars after a Christmas attack. Emergency services were called to Croydon’s Main St in the city’s east at around 6am on Christmas morning Officers believe the tobacco shop was ram raidedContinue Reading
Authorities suspect members of the illegal tobacco trade are behind a fire that has badly damaged a storefront, and impacted a tobacco shop, in Melbourne’s southeast. The blaze broke out along Station St, Oakleigh, about 3.25am on Wednesday in a vacant accounting firm, the flames spreading to a neighbouring tobacconist,Continue Reading