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Jul 2021
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TRUE CRIME AUSTRALIA
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Watch, listen and experience Mafia's Web with a subscription at mafiasweb.com.au. You'll hear the podcast ad free, see galleries, videos and read award winning journalism with your subscription. The Mafia's Web is True Crime Australia's latest groundbreaking podcast. Stephen Drill's two-year investigation lifts the lid on how the mafia is controlling crime in Australia.  But the mafia is no longer just running drugs or extorting fruit markets, it has its tentacles in legitimate businesses too. The eight-part series brings you insights from inside the mafia from a former killer who turned police informant, as well as the latest on the sting of the century that put the criminal cartel back on the map.

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