Crime groups plotting to steal from Indigenous communities, probe reveals

By Nino Bucci
Updated March 29 2015 - 11:13pm, first published 10:34pm
Issues raised by taskforce remain a major cause for concern: Minister for Indigenous Affairs Senator Nigel Scullion. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Issues raised by taskforce remain a major cause for concern: Minister for Indigenous Affairs Senator Nigel Scullion. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Organised crime groups are plotting to steal from Indigenous communities that survive on multi-million dollar mining royalties and land use agreements, an eight-year Australian Crime Commission investigation into isolated and trouble-plagued regions has revealed.

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