Complex sentence: In 1948 Saffron returned to Sydney and began purchasing licences for a string of Sydney pubs and it was later alleged that he established covert controlling interests in many others through a series of'dummy' owners.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1948 Saffron returned to Sydney and began purchasing licences for a string of Sydney pubs. It was later alleged that he also established covert controlling interests in other pubs through a series of'dummy' owners.