2022 & Older Media Statements

2022 Media Statements

• Project Islington: NSW Crime Commission Report into Money Laundering via EGMs in Pubs and Clubs - 26 October 2022
• NSW Crime Commission confiscates wealth of dead gangster Mejid Hamzy - 4 October 2022
• High-Ranking OMCG member charged with murder - 1 September 2022
• Man charged with shooting murder - 1 September 2022
• $150 million Illicit Drug Drug Seizure - 9 July 2022
• Further arrests made into ongoing drug supply - 9 May 2022
• Strike Force Nandewar - 10 March 2022
• Additional arrests over Mejid Hamzy Shooting - 10 March 2022
• Two men jailed for combined 57 years for murder of Ho Ledinh - 28 February 2022
• Strike Force Diffey Sentencing - 24 February 2022
• Further arrests made as part of Strike Force Mote investigations - 16 February 2022
• Damion Flower sentenced - 14 February 2022
• Arrest linked to $7.5M drug import - 20 January 2022
• $8M cash seizure as part of money laundering investigation - 13 Janaury 2022

2021 Media Statements

• Operation Ironside: Eight men to face court after targeted police activity in NSW - 17 December 2021
• Cash and illicit drug seizures as part of ongoing investigations - 17 December 2021
• NSWCC and ILGA Media Release: Poker Machine and Money Laundering Inquiry
• Man charged over $2M cocaine seizure - 5 November 2021
• Charge laid over murder of Wellington man - 1 November 2021
• Media Release: Investigation into Eddie Obeid and Family - 22 October 2021
• Eight-year investigation into $150 million drug importation culminates with extraditions from Dubai - 16 September 20
• $1M drug seizure leads to arrests - 16 September 2021
• Seizure of Pseudoephedrine worth $1.4 Million - 31 August 2021
• Charges laid over Mejid Hamzy shooting - 14 July 2021
• Arrests made after large cocaine and ‘ice’ seizure - 12 July 2021
• $1.5M worth of 'ice' seized - 2 July 2021
• Opium seizure valued at $45,000 - 18 June 2021
• Charges laid over conspiracy to supply $900M of cocaine - 4 June 2021
• $155M Cocaine Seizure - 20 May 2021
• Charges laid over Illawarra drug syndicate - 14 May 2021
• Six men set to be charged in international $47M cocaine investigation - 31 March 2021
• Cocaine filled vessel seized off NSW coast, one man arrested - 17 March 2021
• $4M of prohibited drugs seized - 10 March 2021
• Two men arrested as part of cocaine supply investigation - 23 February 2021
• Large-scale fraud results in three arrests - 18 February 2021
• Man arrested after $5.8M cocaine import - 18 February 2021
• Regional drug supply disrupted as drug syndicate dismantled - 18 February 2021
• One man charged after ‘ice’ and $400,000 cash seizure - 15 February 2021
• Two men charged after $3M 'ice' importation - 8 February 2021

2020 Media Statements

• Two arrested as clandestine drug laboratory dismantled - 13 July 2020
• Three charged over drug distribution Syndicate - 9 July 2020
• 7 year investigation into organised crime syndicate leads to arrests -17 June 2020
• Large scale drug syndicate arrests in NSW Wellington-Dubbo region - 17 June 2020
• Commission proceedings Against Damion Flower - 24 May 2019
• Joint Operation Astatine spurs further arrests in Europe - 4 July 2018
• Drug lab discovered in Sydney home - July 2018
• Joint operation to dismantle encrypted communications - March 2018
• Retirement of the Commissioner - November 2017
• Operation Prospect - June 2017