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Paul Hogan has scored a big victory in his fight with the taxman - the Australian Crime Commission is ready to stump up millions of dollars to pay his legal bills.In a humiliating backdown, the commission has returned tens of thousands of the actor's financial documents. They were seized from his accountants three years ago as part of an investigation into claims he hid millions of dollars in a complex web of overseas trusts. Hogan claimed legal privilege over the documents. Many were mistakenly deleted because of a technical glitch, lawyers for the commission admitted before Justice Arthur Emmett in the Federal Court yesterday. Hogan's lawyers argued that anyone who viewed any of 35 seized documents should be excluded from taking part in further investigations. Barrister Tim Game, SC, for the ACC, said Hogan's application to exclude those who viewed the documents from the investigation would cripple the authority's efforts. The ACC said outside court yesterday's mo...

In the past two weeks, two shootings and the fire-bombing of a house have been linked to the conflict involving the family.The probe centres on a notorious Melbourne crime family which has been linked to shootings, drug trafficking, bribery, abductions and bashings. There have been claims the family wants to move into the gap left by the dismantling of Tony Mokbel's drug empire. In an email to senior police -- including Assistant Commissioner Simon Overland -- Det-Sgt Paul Lunt of Broadmeadows withdrew from the investigation and threatened to resign over "the total incompetence of those charged with the responsibility of the management of investigations of major crime in this state". "I can no longer stand by whilst the departmentally sanctioned spin doctors sugar coat what is a very serious gang war in the making and letting a very dangerous family run amok without proper co-ordinated attention," he wrote. Det-Sgt Lunt wrote that local police had asked for help...