Four volumes,1000 pages and $39.5m:Final Gobbo report slams Victoria Police
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Victoria

Four volumes,1000 pages and $39.5m:Final Gobbo report slams Victoria Police

The Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants has recommended the establishment of a special investigator to consider whether criminal charges should be brought against current and former members of Victoria Police.

  • byChris Vedelago,Tammy Mills andChip Le Grand

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From Lawyer X to ex-lawyer:Gobbo finally struck off bar roll
Courts

From Lawyer X to ex-lawyer:Gobbo finally struck off bar roll

A Supreme Court judge said former police informer Nicola Gobbo's position as a lawyer was"incapable of rehabilitation".

  • byTammy Mills
Wrongly convicted,jailed for a decade and now finally free to tell his story
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Crime

Wrongly convicted,jailed for a decade and now finally free to tell his story

What Zlate Cvetanovski remembers most clearly about the day he was sentenced to a decade in jail for drug trafficking was the courtroom being packed full of the police officers responsible for locking him away.

  • byChris Vedelago andTammy Mills
Clean Zlate:Mokbel trafficker's conviction quashed in wake of Gobbo scandal
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Melbourne gangland

Clean Zlate:Mokbel trafficker's conviction quashed in wake of Gobbo scandal

The conviction of a drug trafficker linked to the Mokbel cartel has been quashed in the Court of Appeal.

  • byChris Vedelago andTammy Mills
Police legal costs blow out to $60m - more than it spends on choppers
Victoria Police

Police legal costs blow out to $60m - more than it spends on choppers

The figure represents a 400 per cent increase in legal costs incurred by the force since 2015,when Graham Ashton was first appointed chief commissioner.

  • byCameron Houston andChris Vedelago
Corruption watchdog makes case to investigate Gobbo police
Victoria Police conduct

Corruption watchdog makes case to investigate Gobbo police

IBAC Commissioner Robert Redlich says his agency's previous involvement in the Gobbo scandal should not preclude it from investigating police implicated in criminal conduct.

  • byChip Le Grand
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Underworld convictions in doubt after police caught secretly paying off witness
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Crime

Underworld convictions in doubt after police caught secretly paying off witness

Documents show police paid money into the prison canteen account of a drug cook-turned supergrass known as"Mr Cooper".

  • byChris Vedelago andTammy Mills
Victoria Police,IBAC can't investigate Gobbo cops,top corruption lawyer says
Victoria Police conduct

Victoria Police,IBAC can't investigate Gobbo cops,top corruption lawyer says

A submission to the Lawyer X royal commission has called for a special prosecutor to ensure police implicated in the Informer 3838 scandal are brought to justice.

  • byChip Le Grand
Gobbo consents to being struck off bar roll
Courts

Gobbo consents to being struck off bar roll

The Supreme Court heard this morning that lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo should be struck off the bar roll for a'lack of candid disclosure'.

  • byTammy Mills
Legal watchdog applies to strike Nicola Gobbo from bar roll
Victoria Police conduct

Legal watchdog applies to strike Nicola Gobbo from bar roll

Legal Services Board applies to Supreme Court to removed notorious former gangland barrister Nicola Gobbo from the bar roll.

  • byTammy Mills
Opposition backs Fitzgerald-style prosecutor for Gobbo cops
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Opposition backs Fitzgerald-style prosecutor for Gobbo cops

The Victorian opposition wants a Fitzgerald-style special prosecutor to investigate police who may have helped Nicola Gobbo pervert the course of justice.

  • byChip Le Grand