Charges dropped against accused cocaine granny Eudoxia Pehlivanidis, grandson Kosta to argue no case against him

An elderly grandmother accused of trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine has had a significant development in her case.

A serious drug charge alleging a western suburbs grandmother attempted to traffic $3.2m worth of cocaine has been withdrawn.

Eudoxia Pehlivanidis, 83, and her grandson Kosta Pehlivanidis, 31, were jointly charged with a count of attempting to traffic in a large commercial quantity of a controlled drug.

But prosecutors on Thursday withdrew the charge against Ms Pehlivanidis in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.

Ms Pehlivanidis, a grandmother of six who was diagnosed with dementia in 2017, was not present in court for the hearing. She is no longer charged with any alleged offending.

The court has previously heard police had intercepted an 8kg package of cocaine – worth up to $43.2 million – bound for Ms Pehlivanidis’ home and replaced it with an inert substance before conducting a “controlled delivery” in February last year.

A charge of trafficking cocaine has been dropped against Eudoxia “Effie” Phelivanidis, 83. Picture: 7NEWS

Court documents allege Ms Pehlivanidis asked the delivery person to leave the package at the rear of her premises before police attended several hours later and found Ms Pehlivanidis with her grandson and the open package.

On Thursday, Mr Pehlivanidis was due to enter a plea, but his lawyer, Alex Scott, said he had requested further evidence from prosecutors which had not yet been provided.

Mr Scott indicated he would argue his client had no case to answer.

He said he had received a “large amount of electronic material in regards to disclosure from a listening device that was contained inside a package that was subject to controlled delivery” just prior to Christmas but had since sought “further and better particulars” be provided.

Kosta Pehlivanidis will argue he has no case to answer. Picture: NCA NewsWire

He said he had also requested further disclosure to be provided in a form that was “not only admissible but also legible”, including from a phone.

“I don’t know what dates these text message were sent and received, what days the videos were sent and received,” he said.

He said he also sought detail from prosecution about what was the alleged “step towards the commission of the offence that was more than mere preparation” because the offending alleged was “attempted”.

Ms Pehlivanidis has previously spoken to media to deny knowing anything about the cocaine, telling 7NEWS she had “never even smoked a cigarette”.

She said she had opened the box, but “didn’t know” where it came from.

Her home and assets had previously been frozen by the District Court on application by the DPP.

Mr Pehlivanidis returns to court later this month.