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King of the Cross: Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron's secret friends and properties


King of the Cross: Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron’s secret friends and properties
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This story was first published on May 31, 2007.
″I’m so devastated by what happened in the will,” says an anguished Alan Saffron. “What you leave in your legacy is an indication of your feelings and I’ve been left out in a terrible way.”
Abe Saffron watches a dancer at his Roosevelt Nightclub in Sydney in January 1951.
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Abe Saffron, Australia’s most famous crime figure, may have died last September, just three weeks shy of his 87th birthday, but he is still calling the shots. Not only did he leave his only son, Alan, now 58 and living in Los Angeles, a smaller amount than his daughter and mistress but there was a codicil to the will stipulating that should his son challenge ....

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Olympic medallist cop Murray Riley who became an international drug dealer dies aged 94


He quickly moved into crime and was a major heroin importer by the mid 1970s
Riley was an associate of Sydney gangsters Lennie McPherson and Neddy Smith
His most notorious failed scheme was the 4.5 tonne Anoa cannabis importation
He was jailed over a  £40million fraud conspiracy in the UK but escaped in 1993
Riley spent the rest of his long life in Queensland avoiding extradition to Britain 
One of the most colourful chapters in Australian criminal history has finally closed with the death of infamous cop turned crook Murray Riley aged 94.
Underworld sources said Riley, who rose to the rank of detective sergeant before embarking on a career as an international drug trafficker, died in Queensland.  ....

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