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DETECTIVES: The Melbourne Tobacco Wars
Season 2 · Episode 113

DETECTIVES: The Melbourne Tobacco Wars

Crime Insiders · LiSTNR

August 4, 202441m 47sExplicit

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Show Notes

Fire-bombings across suburban Melbourne have been terrorising citizens for the last 18 months. But why are they happening? And what can police do to counter act them?

Former AFP Officer Rohan Pike joins host Brent Sanders to explain how high taxes and opportunistic criminals are leading to catastrophic levels of illegal tobacco being siphoned through Melbourne streets. 

As well, a bank note production company - half-owned by the Australian Reserve Bank - allegedly bribed foreign officials in exchange for the right to produce their nation’s currency.

Hear how Rohan was brought in, and how he never would’ve expected the vast, global scale of the investigation. 

Bribes worth millions, a string of dramatic Melbourne raids, and tension between Rohan, the AFP and the ever powerful Australian Reserve Bank….

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