August 8th 2008 Channel Abc news- The Australian Federal Police is this morning raiding the homes of some of Australia's alleged underworld 'Mr Bigs' in connection to the seizure of the world's largest shipment of ecstasy. Fifteen people have been arrested as a result of the raids, including nine Victorians, three people from New South Wales, two South Australians and one Tasmanian. The ecstasy shipment that triggered the operation - 4.4 tonnes or 15 million pills - was imported from Italy into Melbourne in June last year. AFP officers raided premises in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, including the homes of figures linked to the Calabrian Mafia in the NSW Riverina town of Griffith. Griffith was named in the 1979 Woodward Royal Commission as home to a cell of Calabrian Mafia or "honoured society" members. The AFP this morning swooped on the home of the alleged boss of the network behind the ecstasy importation, Pasquale Barbaro, 46, of Tharbagong on the outskirts of Griffith. Barbaro is the son of Francesco "Little Trees" Barbaro, who was named at the Woodward Royal Commission as a member of the Griffith-based Calabrian crime cell behind the disappearance of anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay in 1977. The Australian Federal Police raided the properties of up to sixteen suspects in last year's drug importation including: - Drug baron and founder of the Black Uhlans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, John William Samuel Higgs -Melbourne mafia figure and fruiterer Frank ...