Last week it was revealed he had done little to reform his passion for crime while awaiting his latest sentence. Marrogi was investigated over the shooting of Nabil 'Mad Lebo' Maghnie, who would later be killed while Marrogi was behind bars Marrogi has been investigated over multiple fatal and non-fatal shootings over the periods he has not been behind bars.
There is lot of money at stake, a lot of drugs, huge money,' he said. 'The emergence of Marrogis NCF and his prison bust on conspiracy charges has all sorts of implications. 'We can’t afford to take our eyes off the ball.'ĭespite the assurances, an underworld insider told Daily Mail Australia Melbourne was experiencing arguably 'the most unstable period since the gangland war on numerous fronts'. 'We constantly will be targeting them, we’ll constantly be disrupting them. 'I don’t believe, at all, that we’re on the cusp of any significant gangland war or anything like that, but it does show we constantly have these criminal entities, these criminal groups that are prepared to do anything to try and make money,' Commissioner Patton told 3AW. It came following a string of high profile gang arrests and the day national president of the Comancheros, Mick Murray, was charged over the 2019 murder of Mitat Rasimi.Ī close associate of former drug lord and Underbelly War survivor Tony Mokbel, Rasimi had been shot dead while in his car in Dandenong on March 3, 2019.
Last month, Victoria Police Commissioner Shane Patton went on radio to play down suggestions Melbourne was on the cusp of another gangland war.
While that period was a tough slog for Victoria Police, it had been a blip on the radar compared to the carnage of the city's notorious 'Underbelly War'.īetween January 1998 and August 2010 36 Melbourne underworld figures were murdered.