GANGLAND GODFATHER

Geraldo Bellino, the "managing director" of the Bellino syndicate was sent to jail for seven years in 1991, a member of the family is in the dock as the alleged mastermind of a crime gang. Todd Sean Filippa, 44, the son of Tony Bellino, a senior member of the 1980s syndicate and a prominent figure in the Fitzgerald inquiry who was never charged, has pleaded guilty in relation to a massive drug operation producing and supplying amphetamines, as well as cocaine, throughout Queensland and interstate. The burly, pony-tailed Filippa, who adopted his mother's maiden name because of the notoriety of the Bellinos after the Fitzgerald inquiry, was arrested with 18 other people in 2004 following simultaneous raids on 27 premises in a joint investigation, led by Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission and involving the Queensland police and the Australian Crime Commission. Filippa was arrested at a drug lab in Miles, in southwestern Queensland, where investigators found a p...

Queensland man associated with an outlaw motorcycle gang may have been murdered. But no body has been found and there is no known victim. Detective Senior Constable Graeme Simpfendorfer, from Victoria's Armed Crime Taskforce, said police believed the murder occurred in the northern suburbs of Melbourne in 2005 and involved several people. Although they had assessed the information as credible, they have yet to identify the alleged victim who was believed to be aged in his 40s, fit-looking with a thin build and wide shoulders. He was also said to have short hair and skin described as olive or tanned. He is thought to be from Queensland or South Australia and been associated with outlaw motorcycle gangs. A computer-generated face image of the man has been released and detectives have urged people with information about his identity to come forward. "There may be relatives, associates, friends who recognise this man and we implore them to contact Crime Stoppers,'' said De...