NZ POLICE
Police seized eight luxury cars when they carried out search warrants across Auckland as part of Operation Martinez. This video was originally published in November 2020.
With money laundering prosecutions on the rise and about $1.35billion laundered through businesses annually as a result of fraud, illegal drugs, tax evasion and other crimes, is New Zealand enforcement doing enough? The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, setting standards for more than 200 countries and jurisdictions to help authorities combat serious crime including drug smuggling, human trafficking and terrorism. FATF reports identify what countries are doing right - and where they need to improve - in relation to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks.
STUFF
Comanchero Motorcycle Gang members have been arrested in Auckland. (First published in April 2019) Naufahu previously admitted participating in an organised criminal group, unlawful possession of ammunition and four charges of money laundering, in relation to the purchase of his Bucklands Beach house. His wife and a number of supporters were present in court for Naufahu s sentencing on Friday. Operation Nova The Comanchero members and associates were arrested in April 2019 after a massive police search. At trial, the Crown’s case was that Naufahu arrived in New Zealand with zero dollars in his bank account. Over the course of three years, more than a million dollars was deposited and withdrawn.
Gangland: a book about meth and the people whose lives it touches
Review
Chloe Blades spent two years working to rehabilitate men like those in Jared Savage’s Gangland: New Zealand’s Underworld of Organised Crime. She explains how the book has upended her thinking.
Gangland has the kind of title I’ve spent six years avoiding.
Books and films on gangs are too often sensationalist. Typically, we get brief intros to gang members, emphasising their role as part of a dangerous collective. We’re left fearful of those with a patch, or in a hardhat riding a Harley. We are unable to see the person behind the mask.