Page 2535 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 7 August 1991
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Gerald Gold was recently interviewed by police as being a partner and employer of Anthony Moses, who is a member of the policy committee of the Federal Australian Labor Party Immigration and Foreign Affairs Committee and the ALP Foreign Affairs Policy Committee. Tony Moses was the subject of a police investigation, as being part of an international drug importation conspiracy.
I have already tabled in this Assembly evidence showing that a senior Sydney law firm, Simons and Baffsky, dealt with a United States Mafia group on behalf of Australian organised crime figure Alexander Gajic. One of the actions in which Simons and Baffsky were involved helped asset strip the company Joffrey Pty Ltd so that it could be sent into liquidation, to evade tax and creditors. What I did not reveal at the time was that some of the dealings were the subject of formal investigations - this is the dealings by Simons and Baffsky - one being the controversial purchase of the Luna Park site. Simons and Baffsky have strong connections to the Labor Party.
I also presented evidence of how the Melbourne lawyer Leon Zwier was engaged by Gajic to travel to the United States and negotiate with various organised crime groups to set up a deal to import and franchise X-rated videos. Zwier was recently made a partner of Arnold Bloch, Leibler and Associates, one of Melbourne's most prominent law firms. After my statement in this Assembly I was contacted by the Victorian Law Society to supply further details.
Zwier is now the subject of inquiries by different groups who are examining, among other matters, his trips to the United States to consort and negotiate with firms defined by the Californian Crimes Control Commission as being part of organised crime. Arnold Bloch, Leibler and Associates is a firm appointed by the Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke as advisers on taxation and law reform. Mark Leibler holds a number of senior advisory positions with the Federal Labor Government.
Mr Rod Kelly, associate of several well-known Labor Party members including Morris Milder, who was the solicitor who phoned the office of Gerald Gold to let him know that the Australian Federal Police wanted to search Gold's premises and offered funds to the BLF inquiry, was investigated by Fijian authorities as being part of an arms smuggling racket during the Rabuka coup. Alexander Gajic, in his statement before Mr Justice Woodward, confirmed that he had arranged and paid for overseas trips for members of the Victorian Labor Party.
A publishing company, Care Publications Pty Ltd, involving publishing magnate Mr Gerald Gold, also has as associates on its board of trustees Labor members Mrs Joan Coxsedge, Edward Rush and others. In investigating organised crime control of the X-rated porn industry, I have been struck by the number of times connections are made between members of the Australian Labor Party and identities named as being involved in organised crime.
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