Police declare major crime gang 'eradicated

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More than a dozen arrests and a near-three-year investigation has led to the ‘eradication’ of NSW Alameddine criminal enterprise. Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson details the crackdown on the drug gang. Video via AAP.

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00:00 I can say that what has been referred to as the 'boundary'

00:04 organised crime network, I believe, has been eradicated with the activity this morning.

00:10 We previously indicated that in organised crime murders,

00:14 the conflict between these groups was driven by this drug conflict,

00:20 territorial conflict, that emanated from drug distribution

00:25 and the movement of a variety of illicit drugs,

00:29 which has been the target of our operations under Wessex since over last year.

00:36 It's been very difficult for the police, knowing of the status of our

00:40 investigations through this process, that we couldn't talk to the media about

00:46 some of the strategies we were utilising when questioned in relation to some of

00:51 those organised crime murders. But since the activity of Erebus, since

00:56 the activity of Shulkan and since the activity commenced in Wessex,

01:00 we're quite confident that the conflict between the Hameses and the

01:03 Aramiduits has now been resolved.

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