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5T (gang)

Vietnamese organized crime group

Field	Value
name	5T
caption	Image of 5T gang retrieved Daily Telegraph @10/04/2024
founded	Mid 1980s
founding location	Cabramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
founded by	Arose from Vietnamese Youths who came to Australia with their parents after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Tri Minh Tran was their leader.
years active	1985–99
territory	Cabramatta
ethnic makeup	Vietnamese
membership est	Exact members unknown
criminal activities	drug trafficking, extortion
allies	Various street gangs
rivals	Various Asian street gangs

5T was a Vietnamese crime gang active in the Cabramatta area of Sydney, Australia in the final two decades of the 20th century.

The rise of 5T

The 5T gang was started by refugees who came to Australia with their parents after the fall of the Republic of Vietnam. The formation of the 5Ts began in the mid-1980s. The term 5T, stands for five Vietnamese words starting with T; 'Tình', 'Tiền', 'Tù', 'Tội' and 'Tử', translating to 'Love, Money, Prison, Punishment, Death'. However, 5T also means 'tuổi trẻ thiếu tình thương' which roughly translates to 'childhood without love.' Gang members apparently were tattooed with the emblem consisting of a straight horizontal line and 5 joined vertical lines with members' first and family names starting with the letter T being the horizontal line on top of the name.

Disbandment

The murder of the leader in 1995 sparked a power struggle within the organization. This was ultimately furthered with the death of the successor. The leader and namesake of the gang, however, was subsequently murdered outside a Western Sydney pub in 1999 shortly after being released from prison, subsequently leading to the eventual demise of the 5T Gang.

References

(23 February 2017). "Johnny Nguyen's taste for drug turned him into Vietnamese gang 5T's ice tester boy".
(27 November 2014). "Gangland Australia: Colonial Criminals to the Carlton Crew". [[Melbourne University Publishing]].
(8 April 1997). "Cabramatta".
(29 June 2001). "Ngo found guilty of Newman assassination".
(5 July 2013). "The History of Australian True Crime". Arcturus Publishing.
(17 May 2002). "5T gang member shot dead while on parole".

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