{"id":182445,"date":"2023-12-16T18:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=182445"},"modified":"2023-12-16T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T18:31:47","slug":"how-george-marrogis-sister-became-the-brains-behind-the-familys-crime-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/how-george-marrogis-sister-became-the-brains-behind-the-familys-crime-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"How George Marrogi\u2019s sister became \u2018the brains behind\u2019 the family\u2019s crime empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/span>Chris Vedelago<\/span>, Marta Pascual Juanola<\/span> and Erin Pearson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When Meshilin Marrogi died of COVID-19 in 2021, aged just 30, it marked the beginning of the end for the Notorious Crime Family.<\/p>\n

The founder and boss of the NCF might have been the infamous career criminal George Marrogi, but the chaos inside the billion-dollar drug empire following his sister\u2019s death proved \u201cMesh\u201d was the brains behind the operation.<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from top left: Meshilin Marrogi\u2019s crypt and memorial at Preston General Cemetery; with brother George Marrogi; and stills from CCTV footage of the break-in at the cemetery on July 30.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meshilin\u2019s central role in the Marrogi criminal empire has been documented by The Sunday Age<\/i> through interviews with police investigators, information from four underworld sources who cannot be named, financial and telecommunication records tendered as evidence in multiple criminal proceedings and published court judgments.<\/p>\n

When she died in September 2021, Meshilin had held in her mind a \u201cblueprint\u201d that detailed a complex portfolio of tens of millions of dollars of illicit profits hidden in property investments, artworks, yachts, jewellery, cars and cash stashes.<\/p>\n

George, who was running the NCF from inside a maximum security jail cell while awaiting trial for murder, was seriously caught out when his de facto vice president died.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Meshilin] had it running extremely well. She had it running as a business even though it was illicit money, an illicit business driven by drugs,\u201d said Victoria Police Senior Sergeant Nathan Toey, who oversaw the Marrogi money laundering investigation, Operation Steelers.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was aware of the money trail, she was the contact point for all the associates. Even though it was at George\u2019s drive and behest, she was the brains behind it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The underworld take is more direct. \u201cOnce she died it all turned to shit,\u201d said a source, who cannot be publicly identified.<\/p>\n

The siblings\u2019 relationship \u2013 both personally and in the NCF \u201cbusiness\u201d \u2013 was so tightly intertwined that it would ultimately result in a gangland rival ordering Meshilin\u2019s body be stolen and desecrated years later in the ultimate act of revenge against the Marrogi family.<\/p>\n

Two peas in a pod<\/b><\/h3>\n

George and Meshilin were bound not just by blood and business but were the best of friends, which is somewhat ironic given he has spent less than a year of his adult life outside of prison.<\/p>\n

George was the hothead gangster who wanted to be a kingpin. Meshilin, by outside appearances, was the glamorous younger sister and entrepreneur who ran a beauty salon.<\/p>\n

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Meshilin \u201cMesh\u201d Marrogi, also known as \u201cMish Moshey\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a proper, healthy-looking individual, who is a businesswoman. She had a successful shop; she was looking at opening another one. And she had a few good investments,\u201d the underworld source said.<\/p>\n

But she was never far from George as he orchestrated crimes and waged his bloody feuds.<\/p>\n

Meshilin was a wizard at washing dirty money clean, deploying both tried-and-true money laundering techniques such as property investments and more sophisticated schemes including trading in paintings, digital artwork and diamonds.<\/p>\n

Even the siblings\u2019 romantic lives were enmeshed with their underworld business.<\/p>\n

George and Meshilin often dated associates and friends that each had drawn into their joint criminal circle, creating a tight-knit \u201cfamily\u201d from love interests turned co-conspirators and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Many of George\u2019s girlfriends, both on the street and after he went to prison, were introduced to him by Meshilin.<\/p>\n

This included Jessica Homa and Antonietta Mannella, both of whom have pleaded guilty over their involvement in the Marrogi money laundering syndicate.<\/p>\n

Court documents detail how Meshilin lured Mannella \u2013 her friend and employee \u2013 into the syndicate by introducing her to her crime boss brother while he was in prison.<\/p>\n

Mannella, otherwise a \u201ccleanskin\u201d \u2013 although she was the daughter and niece of Italian crime figures, Vincenzo and Gerardo Mannella, both murdered in 1999 \u2013 fell in love with George even though rules in his high-security prison meant the relationship could never be consummated.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs Mannella knew that the Marrogis were involved in dubious activity and she soon became involved herself through her close friendship with Mesh,\u201d the judge in George and Antonietta Mannella\u2019s drug case found.<\/p>\n

Mannella received a 13-year prison term in February 2023 for her role in the drug trafficking operation. Next week she will be sentenced over her involvement in the money laundering syndicate.<\/p>\n

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George Marrogi\u2019s partner Antonietta Mannella (left) and late sister, Meshilin.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Instagram<\/cite><\/p>\n

Mannella had grown so close to Meshilin that the 30-year-old made her the executor of her will \u2013 which has been obtained by The Sunday Age<\/em> \u2013 five months before her death, leaving her and George a $1.7 million property portfolio.<\/p>\n

Meshilin, in turn, became involved with several of George\u2019s hardcore criminal associates. When setting up companies to help launder money for the gang, Meshilin used the alias \u201cMish Moshey\u201d, which was a nod to one of George\u2019s mates and a former love interest, convicted cocaine trafficker Moshey Youkhana, according to police and underworld sources.<\/p>\n

She also had an affair with a convicted drug trafficker and one-time Marrogi ally who cannot be identified because they are currently awaiting trial on a massive methamphetamine importation.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, George was shattered by Meshilin\u2019s sudden death COVID-19 in 2021.<\/p>\n

Her funeral, which was recorded and posted on the internet, was marked by scenes of profound grief. The siblings\u2019 mother, Madlin Enwiya, had the coffin opened at the viewing in order to give her a kiss from \u201cGeorgie\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meshilin would be buried in an extravagant white dress and veil, wearing a diamond ring worth an estimated $100,000 and in a coffin that included a viewing window.<\/p>\n

She was then interred and memorialised with a more than $800,0000 private family alcove inside the mausoleum of the Preston General Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Fall of the empire<\/b><\/h3>\n

Meshilin\u2019s death caused massive problems for the operations of the Notorious Crime Family.<\/p>\n

The siblings had kept in constant contact by setting up a phone diversion that appeared to prison authorities to be connected to George\u2019s lawyers, where the calls were protected and immune from interception, court documents show.<\/p>\n

Despite being isolated in almost 24-hour lockdown, George had also allegedly paid a guard to smuggle in an internet dongle for his prison computer, according to police sources. Meshilin sent a constant stream of emails and images of encrypted chats with associates detailing plans for drug importations and the laundering of the ill-gotten proceeds.<\/p>\n

But Meshilin\u2019s death cut George\u2019s central trusted conduit to his empire and caused the loss of a wealth of inside information about the NCF\u2019s operations that she had organised.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Mesh died from COVID-19, Mr Marrogi asked [his girlfriend] Ms Mannella to assume the role previously played by Mesh in his criminal activities,\u201d the judge in George\u2019s drug trafficking case found in 2023.<\/p>\n

In some cases, Mannella even attempted to impersonate Meshilin because they were effectively flying blind.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one knew the structures of the business and knew where the money had been loaned and pushed and invested in,\u201d Victoria Police\u2019s Toey told The Sunday Age<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t really understand the arrangements Meshilin had set up. Antonietta didn\u2019t have a business brain on her either, she was hopeless and reckless.\u201d<\/p>\n

George and Mannella took bigger and bigger risks attempting to uncover and claw back funds, setting up sloppy front businesses to fund the family\u2019s lifestyle and operation and issuing wild threats against those who were allegedly holding or laundering their money.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Mesh had died that was it \u2013 George wanted it all back and wanted it now,\u201d Toey said.<\/p>\n

In an intercepted conversation in April 2022 \u2013 seven months after her death \u2013 between George, his brother Jesse and Mannella, George raised concerns about how slowly money was being moved though company and personal bank accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get the zuzi [money] back, I\u2019m telling you,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, it\u2019s like, this all the zuzi that\u2019s been saved up? All I\u2019ve given to Mesh has gone to the banker, they still haven\u2019t given it back yet. I don\u2019t want to wait, it\u2019s $10 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April 2022, the hammer fell on the NCF organisation following major operations by Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police.<\/p>\n

More than $55 million worth of assets were frozen. George and Mannella were convicted for their part in the drug operations. George\u2019s brother Jesse, his mother and Mannella have pleaded guilty to money laundering.<\/p>\n

But the ultimate punishment was yet to come.<\/p>\n

On July 30, two men broke into the Preston cemetery and attempted to steal Meshilin\u2019s body. When the scheme was foiled by a broken lift, the casket was cracked open and a $100,000 ring was believed to have been stolen.<\/p>\n

Long-time gangland rival Kazem \u201cKaz\u201d Hamad is suspected of orchestrating the attempted theft of the body, with plans to ultimately desecrate and dismember Meshilin\u2019s corpse as a \u201cf— you\u201d to the Marrogi family.<\/p>\n

The unprecedented act has shocked the underworld, except for some who know the inside story of Meshilin and George\u2019s joint rise to power \u2013 and Mesh\u2019s ability to make her own enemies.<\/p>\n

John Silvester lifts the lid on Australia\u2019s criminal underworld.<\/i><\/b> Sign up<\/i><\/b> to receive his Naked City newsletter every Thursday.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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