Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.This is the story of two very rich Australians, a petrol station magnate and his beloved son. It is also a story of a federal organised crime probe into the source of the son’s vast suspected wealth.
There is no suggestion that John or any other member of the Dib family has any involvement or have in any way assisted in his son’s suspected criminality.George Dib has never been convicted of a crime and was acquitted a decade ago when charged with possession of a trafficable quantity of drugs in the ACT.
“He has no current business relationship with The Dib Group of companies or with John, his father, or with me, his uncle, or to the best of our knowledge and belief with any other family members here in Australia.”The targeting of the younger George Dib’s wealth is part of a years-long effort by Australian agencies to dismantle an international criminal empire allegedly responsible for multiple drug importations.
While George Dib isn’t a Dubai property owner, serving and former law enforcement officials, along with an underworld figure close to Dib, confirmed that he had used Dubai as an operating hub before shifting to Lebanon, where he has suspected connections to senior government and military officials. George Dib and Waters have a long history together. In November 2008, Dib, then 24 years old, was under police surveillance in Canberra and police alleged he was seen with a bag over his shoulder getting into a ute being driven by his mate Waters.
Waters told the trial that his uncle had been sitting in the passenger seat earlier that day and that he had not seen Dib put the bag in the car. Waters said his uncle had since disappeared. At the time he was connected to two major drug syndicates and was making millions laundering their dirty money through property deals in the ACT and Sydney. In early 2017, the tax fraud conspirators were picked up on phone taps planning to blame the fraud on Larcombe or Waters should the scheme collapse.
“Dib moved from Australia to Europe or the Middle East in June 2015 to evade the attention of security agencies in Australia,” the federal police file alleges. Five official sources not authorised to talk told this masthead confidentially that federal agency investigators had recently revitalised efforts to trace George Dib’s assets.
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