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The first Serbian mafiosi came to Australia in the late '70s, organised in a Yugoslav clan, their headquarters were some 15 kafanas in Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne. [5] In the '80s the Serbian Mafia was reinforced with the arrival of Serbian immigrants.
Organised crime in Sydney can be traced back to the Razor gangs of the 1920s and 1930s. [citation needed] By the 1950s, the Sydney gangland scene started to become more organised with various criminal figures controlling illegal casinos, brothels, SP bookmaking, Drug Trafficking, nightclubs and ran Protection rackets, across greater Sydney, often supported by corrupt police.
The 'ndrangheta began in Queensland, where they continued their rural form of organised crime, especially in the fruit and vegetable industry. [3] From 1928 to 1940, some 10 homicides and 30 bombings were attributed to the Society. [4] 'Ndrangheta operating in Australia include the Sergi, Barbaro and Papalia clans. [5]
The 5T gang was started by refugees who came to Australia with their parents after the fall of the Republic of Vietnam. The formation of the 5Ts began in the mid-1980s. The term 5T, stands for five Vietnamese words starting with T; 'Tình', 'Tiền', 'Tù', 'Tội' and 'Tử', translating to 'Love, Money, Prison, Punishment, Death'.
MOB also is believe to have deep undocumented and yet to be proven links to multiple crime entetis in Sydney, including OMC groups and organised crime syndicates also bleaved to be involved in the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old in Chester Hill in October 2021. Its active status is currently unknown. [74] NF14: 2770 (Mount Druitt)
26 April 1980 – Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappearance – A mother and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter disappeared from outside their St Kilda, Victoria, residence and are presumed murdered (unsolved). May 1980 and November 1981 – Tynong North and Frankston Murders – Six women were killed in Victoria (unsolved).
The history of gangs in Australia goes back to the colonial era.Criminal gangs flourished in The Rocks district of Sydney in its early history in the 19th century. The Rocks Push was a notorious larrikin gang which dominated the area from the 1800s to the end of the 1900s.
Bruno Robert Trimbole (/ t r ɪ m b oʊ l i /) (19 March 1931 – 12 May 1987) was an Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure whose alleged involvement in drug trafficking in Griffith, New South Wales, resulted in a royal commission, a coroner's inquest and an international chase by the Australian government seeking his apprehension after he fled to Europe.