Tony Mokbel arriving to court on Tuesday.

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel wants to taste freedom for the first time in 18 years

If released,Mokbel will be free for the first time since 2007,when he was famously arrested in Greece disguised in a wig.

  • Erin Pearson andChris Vedelago

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Sarah Benson takes over Sport Integrity Australia after a long career with the Australian Federal Police.

Sport’s new top cop warns of integrity risk from cocaine and criminal links

Former AFP chief forensic scientist Sarah Benson has also prioritised rebuilding trust in the global anti-doping system and the safeguarding of children in sport.

  • Chris Barrett
The casino and Queens Wharf complex in Brisbane.

Revealed:Bombshell report into shady casino links they didn’t want you to see

A secret government report concluded the Hong Kong company that rescued Star from financial collapse concealed its relationship with a notorious junket operator.

  • Harriet Alexander
Victoria Police target the Outlaws Motorcycle gang’s national run back in 2013.

The bikies’ deadly code of silence

This wasn’t about snitching to police but telling the truth about the death of an innocent man,so the victim’s family could have some answers.

  • John Silvester
CCTV footage of attempted extortion of tobacco shop.

Tobacco war at ‘turning point’ thanks to informers,say police

Victoria Police says the public,as well as members of a tobacco crime syndicate,are starting to co-operate with officers.

  • Chris Vedelago
Thomas Goertz has been charged with allegedly helping Sayit Erhan Akca flee Australia.

The ‘hedonist’ sailor and the caravan terror plot suspect

‘Anti-authoritarian adventurer’ Thomas Goertz allegedly helped accused drug smuggler Sayit Erhan Akca flee authorities.

  • Riley Walter
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John Gordon and Emily Berry,the parents of Jetson Gordon.

Half a pill was enough to kill Jetson. Now this drug is infiltrating supply

The teenage apprentice placed an online order for a pill he hoped would help him relax and get to sleep. He never woke up.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
The West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne.

Companies on public projects exposed in CFMEU federal police probe

More businesses with ties to bikies and the underworld have been revealed as the gangland corruption scandal deepens.

  • Nick McKenzie andSarah Danckert
Jacinta Allan speaking on Monday.

Premier’s ‘new’ Operation Hawk union crackdown already exists,say police

A police investigation into organised crime on Big Build sites announced on Monday by the Victorian Premier has actually been running since July.

  • Kieran Rooney,Chip Le Grand andRachel Eddie
Mick Gatto and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

‘Nobody’s stopping it’:The taxpayer money trail from building sites to the underworld

A major investigation has revealed how gangland and bikie-linked figures are receiving large payments from companies on publicly funded projects.

  • Nick McKenzie,Sarah Danckert andAmelia Ballinger