Despite repeated warnings that rising tobacco taxes would hand a fortune to organised crime, governments watched a ...

Criminal gangs cashing in on Australia's illicit tobacco boom will face tougher penalties and expanded police surveillance ...

Australian crime syndicates are using fake plain packaging — mass produced overseas — to legitimise illicit tobacco and flood the legal market with knock-offs.

A new Five Eyes-style alliance is the only way to smash serious organised crime gangs - including drug and people trafficking, illegal arms sales, cyberattacks and fraud - which have become so endemic ...