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The vendors are the hospitality-based Cassar family, long-term residents of the Sandringham area.

Well-run illegal casinos operated in Sydney from the late 1960s to the late 1980s  Casino operators paid police and politicians bribes to operate their businesses  Establishments offered free alcohol, food and sometimes prostitutes to punters While they generally had shabby exteriors, inside many casinos were luxurious The buildings that housed the casinos still stand in the city and eastern suburbs 

A flamboyant Aussie criminal who conspired with the Provisional IRA in a major counterfeiting operation died. Murray Stewart Riley, a former cop, passed away a few months ago in Queensland, Australia, aged 94, however the news of his death only emerged around Christmas time Down Under. The copper turned international drug trafficker rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest gangsters in Australia, such as Lenny McPherson, and did business with some of the most notorious mafia figures in the USA, like James 'Jimmy the Weasel' Fratianno and Sal Amarena of the Santos Trafficante family. Having s...

He quickly moved into crime and was a major heroin importer by the mid 1970s Riley was an associate of Sydney gangsters Lennie McPherson and Neddy Smith His most notorious failed scheme was the 4.5 tonne Anoa cannabis importation He was jailed over a  £40million fraud conspiracy in the UK but escaped in 1993 Riley spent the rest of his long life in Queensland avoiding extradition to Britain  One of the most colourful chapters in Australian criminal history has finally closed with the death of infamous cop turned crook Murray Riley aged 94. Underworld sources said Riley, who rose to the ra...