Chasing dough: Mokbel opened a suburban fast-food restaurant as his second legitimate business and named a pizza in his own honour.
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Old school: Mick the Teflon Don’t Gatto at yet another funeral. He and Mokbel fell out after blood was spilt on the streets of Carlton.
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Life’s a beach … and then you die. The new school – Carl Williams and Andrew. ‘Benji’ Veniamin – splash around at Surfers Paradise in 2004.
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At work: Glamorous criminal solicitor – and alleged Mokbel love interest – Zarah Garde-Wilson at court.
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And play: Posing up at the beachside showers on the South Melbourne foreshore in 2003.
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Trackside Tony: Mokbel at Flemington for Oaks Day 2004, having a laugh with bookie Frank Hudson.
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Stand by your man: Tony’s girl Danielle McGuire and Mrs Milad Mokbel – Renate – attend court.
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Taking sides: Mokbel casts his lot in with the Williams crew, standing next to Carl’s now-deceased mum at Benji’s funeral.
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Press-ganged: Purana chief Bernie Edwards, who oversaw Operation Magnum’s probe into Tony Mokbel, fronts the media pack.
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Luxury: (above) Room 1223 of Crown Towers, where Mokbel hunkered down during the height of the gangland war; and (left) with Tony locked up and crying poor, unemployed Danielle was still living in coastal bliss.
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Bent: Wayne Strawhorn, a shining light in the force until he was jailed for being a drug criminal.
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Straight: AFP Agent Jarrod Ragg pursued Mokbel for years.
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Cops and robbers: Officer in charge of the Purana taskforce Jim O’Brien fought to take a bite out of the Mokbel family syndicate.
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Vaudeville: A relaxed Mokbel vamps it up outside the Melbourne courts.
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Gotcha: Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon with an image from Greece of Mokbel in disguise.
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Solitary man: In Bonnie Doon, Tony got more enforced ‘me time’ than he may have liked.
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Greek unorthodox: Another country, another perp walk to court for the man who would become a crook in any language.
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Wigging out: Mokbel’s hairpiece became as notorious as its host, as in this celebrated Mark Knight cartoon.
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Apple of her eye: Ma Mokbel backed her boys to the bitter end (above); and (below) Bigwig no more – Tony looks less than impressed by the twist in his tale.
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