Crime
Stephen Ronald Sonners, 58, was stopped at Triabunna in September 2025 with $1,065,660 in a cardboard box, told police he found it under a bridge, and later admitted he was being paid about $1,000 to leave it in the bush. The Supreme Court of Tasmania gave him fifteen months' home detention. The judge's published reasons explain the charge, the defence he did not run, and the encrypted group chat called Final pass.
By T. Nguyen · 10 October 2026 · 4 min read
Crime
A 45-year-old Killara man was refused bail on 4 July 2026, charged with laundering $2.4 million through his construction business for a syndicate police say washed $150 million for organised crime. The alleged method is the oldest one there is: a real business, real wages, and a fake invoice.
By NOFUF · 10 October 2026 · 3 min read
The Register
For twenty years the anti-money laundering regime covered about 17,000 businesses: banks, casinos, remitters, bullion dealers. From 1 July 2026 it covers lawyers, conveyancers, accountants, real estate agents, developers, trust and company service providers, dealers in precious metals and crypto exchanges as well. That is roughly 100,000 businesses, most of them small, and the enrolment deadline has already passed.
By T. Nguyen · 11 September 2026 · 5 min read
Crime
In February 2023 the Australian Federal Police arrested nine people and restrained more than twenty Sydney properties over what they called an unregulated multinational bank. The police set out the mechanism themselves. Every entity in it was an ordinary registered company.
By B. O'Connell · 6 September 2026 · 4 min read
