From Sydney coke-dealing corporate high-flyers to prison
THEY carried drug scales inside a Louis Vuitton box and boasted of splashing ill-gotten gains on Rolex watches. Now two cocaine-dealing Sydney corporate high-flyers have swapped the boardroom for a prison cell.
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THEY carried drug scales inside a Louis Vuitton box and boasted of splashing their ill-gotten gains on Rolex watches.
During business hours, Ashkan Rafiq, 42, and Alli Atmar, 29, were IT consultants at GlobalX in Sydney’s CBD but last year they were ducking away from their desks at 1 Castlereagh St to deal cocaine.
The deals — ranging from one to three bags of cocaine at time — were carried out in the office high rise, at Curtin Place and other inner-city locations between September and December last year, court documents reveal.
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Intercepted text messages between the dealing pair revealed their sales strategy ahead of the 2017 holiday season.
“Christmas parties are coming up, we will be f … ing busy,” Rafiq text.
“Please do not give any free shit to anyone including your other mate.
“We need to get more hard paint slowly now before Christmas.”
Rafiq stated he had a before-7pm policy as after that “people are too pissed and they become a punish”.
During one text exchange, the men discussed their potential earnings with Rafiq remarking: “dude you’ll be getting a Rolex every week!”
Redfern Region Enforcement Squad officers arrested Rafiq and Atmar at a wine bar on December 1 last year.
Rafiq and Atmar were both sentenced to four years’ jail on Friday.