Nine men drawn from Australian bikie gangs, Asian triads and Middle Eastern crime syndicates make up what criminal intelligence authorities have called the ‘Aussie Cartel’.
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Further three men charged after investigation into supply of prohibited drugs – Raptor Squad
A further three men have been charged by Raptor Squad following an investigation into the sale and supply of prohibited drugs.
In September 2020, investigators attached to the State Crime Command’s Raptor Squad, with the assistance of the New South Wales Crime Commission (NSWCC), established Strike Force Warabin to investigate the distribution of commercial drugs by a criminal network across New South Wales and interstate.
In February 2021, investigators seized 127kg cannabis in a truck at a heavy vehicle stop in Moss Vale. The male driver, aged 25, was arrested and taken to Goulburn Police Station where he was charged. The man remains before the courts.
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As snow falls in the fading evening light in Istanbul, a man dressed in black appears in a hotel doorway. Shaky video footage records him standing like an apparition in a snow globe.
Australia’s most wanted organised crime boss then does what he has done so many times before in his decade on the run. Hakan “the Facebook gangster” Ayik turns and walks away.
The video, posted in February last year on the Instagram account of Istanbul’s Kings Cross hotel, is brief and blurry. Yet it offered an important clue about Ayik’s movements many years after his suspected role in a massive 2010 drug shipment put him on Interpol’s most wanted list.
Two men have been sentenced after their two separate attempts to import illicit tobacco products were thwarted by the Australian Border Force (ABF). On.