Convicted drug trafficker Trevor John Williams to be sentenced for money laundering which is linked to former Gold Coast lawyer Shaune Irving

A convicted Central Queensland drug trafficker who is linked to accused money-laundering Gold Coast lawyer Shaune Irving will be sentenced next month for his role in the laundering business.

A convicted drug trafficker who is linked to accused money-laundering Gold Coast lawyer Shaune Irving will be sentenced next month for his role in the laundering business.

Trevor John Williams is serving time in Capricornia Correctional Centre after being sentenced to five years prison for the drug trafficking business he and his son, Teej Lloyd Williams, ran between July and September 2016.

The Wandal duo “operated at the higher-end of street-level and into wholesale level” with a turnover of about $84,580. It had as many as 20-25 customers with a total of 102 supplies recorded by police.

The business specialised in methamphetamine and cannabis but also dealt in other amphetamines and over its period of operation, pushed almost 5kg of cannabis and 135 grams of meth.

Trevor Williams was represented by Mr Irving in a hearing in Rockhampton Magistrates Court in 2020 where a drug trafficking charge was dismissed.

He had been charged with four counts of drug trafficking as part of a major drug operation that ran between 2016 and 2018.

Mr Irving worked at Moloney Maccallum Abdelshahed law firm at the time he represented Mr Williams.

Shaune Irving leaves the Brisbane District Court in 2019.

Mr Williams is currently represented by David Mills of David Mills Lawyers and barrister Jordan Ahlstrand who requested a sentence date for Mr Williams’ money laundering charges during a Rockhampton District Court sittings today, January 27.

The sentence date has been set for February 8.

Mr Williams was charged with money laundering in March 2021 and as of the last mention in the district court on May 12, 2021, Mr Mills had only received a partial brief of evidence which contained a statement from one of the informants in the money laundering case, Antonious Abdelshahied, who was a partner in the law firm Moloney MacCallum Abdelshahied Lawyers until 2020.

Mr Mills told the court at that time that Mr Abdelshahied’s statement was prepared on October 26, 2020.

Mr Mills said he only received Mr Abdelshahied’s statement on May 14, 2021.

Irving, 38, is facing 23 charges including 10 counts of fraud, two counts of money laundering, four counts of supplying a dangerous drug and seven other charges including perjury for allegedly giving false evidence to a secretive CCC hearing into law firm principal Campbell MacCallum in January last year, and making false verified statements to police.