Melbourne's Carlton Crew Mick Gatto newspaper the business and finance sectors were rapidly becoming the new "power base" of organised crime

criminal networks and outlawed motorcycle gangs are exploiting weaknesses in corporate laws and poor regulation of financial markets, reaping multi-million-dollar profits from suspected share market manipulation, asset stripping and the snatching of control of companies they force into administration.
federal agencies are investigating the head of Melbourne's Carlton Crew, Mick Gatto, his business associate John Khoury and financial adviser and loan provider Tom Karas, as well as high-profile share trader Leo Khouri. All have denied any wrongdoing.Also under investigation are members of the Mokbel crime family and outlaw motorcycle gangs in a number of states, including NSW and Victoria. Detective Inspector Bernie Edwards, head of the Victoria Police Purana gangland taskforce, told the newspaper the business and finance sectors were rapidly becoming the new "power base" of organised crime.