The Dark Side

The Explosive Story of Corruption, Greed and Murder in the Australian Drug Trade

Clive Small, Tom Gilling

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781742698922
• Edition: 0

"Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs." Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organized crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and Tom Gilling show how Australian crime gangs, in partnership with violent international syndicates, have exploited lax law enforcement and corruption on the nation's waterfront to import narcotics on a vast scale from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. The authors reveal for the first time the corrupt history of Mark Standen, the senior investigator at the New South Wales Crime Commission whose conviction on drug importation charges sparked Australia's biggest law-enforcement crisis since the Wood royal commission. In the process they expose the cover-ups, strategic blunders and missed opportunities that continue to make Australia a soft target for international drug traffickers. The Dark Side is a fierce and compelling expose of organised crime in Australia and Australia's multi-billion-dollar drug trade.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 IAN SAXON SYNDICATE
• 2 BENNY’S BAR
• 3 BATEMAN AND BATEMAN
• 4 THE BIG LEAGUE
• 5 THE DREAMS OF FRANKIE BALLIS
• 6 PAINTERS, DOCKERS AND DEALERS
• 7 VASO ULIC AND THE BALKAN NETWORK
• 8 BLOOD RELATIONS
• 9 GUNNER FOR HIRE
• 10 LITTLE JIMMY KINCH
• 11 MARK STANDEN—A MAN ON THE MAKE
• 12 FAMILY FRIENDS
• 13 THE GAME
• 14 FOLLOW THE MONEY
• 15 BUSINESS PARTNERS
• 16 ‘HELLO SWEETHEART’
• 17 RADOSLAV SPADINA AND ADAM WATT
• 18 THE DUTCH SYNDICATES
• PIC SECTION
• AFTERWORD
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX