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Mokbel granted taxypayer-funded legal aid

ACCUSED double murderer Tony Mokbel has been granted taxpayer-funded legal aid in his fight against murder and other charges. The revelation came in a hearing today for two men who admitted helping Mokbel, believed to be one of...

Once upon a time in Oz: How Underbelly captured a nation's imagination

Underbelly is so much more than Melbourne's answer to The Sopranos, says Karin Bishop. Welcome to the world of Underbelly, a violent, brutal, drug-addled orgy of excess and mindless violence — organised crime, Aussie-style. His...

Baptism of firepower

WHEN Simon Overland quit the Australian Federal Police after 19 years to take up his role as assistant commissioner in Victoria Police in early 2003, he left an administrative desk job and walked into the middle of Melbourne's...

Gangland survivor excused from trial (AAP)

A man who was shot and wounded when gangland victim Lewis Moran was killed in a Melbourne club says he is unfit to answer a series of driving charges. Herbert Wrout, 66, was sitting alongside his friend Lewis Moran when two...

Gangland survivor too crook for court

A MAN who was shot and wounded when gangland victim Lewis Moran was killed in a Melbourne club says he is unfit to answer a series of driving charges. Herbert Wrout, 66, was sitting alongside his friend Lewis Moran when two...

Mokbel to face murder, drugs charges

ACCUSED underworld killer Tony Mokbel will still face murder and drugs charges after failing in his bid to have the case against him stopped. Mokbel's lawyers had applied to the Victorian Supreme Court to have the criminal case...

Mokbel fails to stop murder charges (AAP)

Accused underworld killer Tony Mokbel will still face murder and drugs charges after failing in his bid to have the case against him stopped. Mokbel's lawyers had applied to the Victorian Supreme Court to have the criminal case...

Mokbel extradition lawful, court rules

TONY Mokbel has lost a bid to halt drug and murder charges against him on the basis his extradition to Australia denied him justice. Justice Stephen Kaye this morning (AEDT) rejected a call by Mokbel's lawyers to brand Mokbel's...

Mokbel loses court battle

ACCUSED underworld killer Tony Mokbel has lost his bid to have drugs and murder charges against him stopped. Mokbel's lawyers argued in the Victorian Supreme Court that the charges against him should be stayed on the basis his...

Mokbel loses extradition case

Appeal fails: Mokbel was extradited from Greece earlier this year. Former fugitive Tony Mokbel has lost a bid to stop the case against him proceeding on the basis that his extradition from Greece was illegal. Mokbel fled...

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