Riverina lawyer Alina Yousif found guilty of drug charges linked with Bandidos Motorcycle Club
A Riverina lawyer has been found guilty of drug charges after she was caught counting thousands of dollars linked to the Bandidos bikie gang.
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A lawyer in the Riverina has been found to be part of a criminal group supplying drugs linked to an outlaw motorcycle gang with surveillance catching her counting and discussing money made from the supply.
An Albury District Court jury has found Alina Yousif guilty of taking part in the supply of a prohibited drug, participating in a criminal group and contributing to a criminal activity and using false document to influence exercise of public duty.
She had pleaded not guilty to the charges and was on trial starting February 24.
A court previously heard Yousif, who was not an initial target of a police operation, was one of four arrested in late 2017 after police raided the North Albury house she shared with 36-year-old Clinton Roy Parkinson, her partner at the time.
Court documents state Yousif was involved in supplying 55.5 grams of the drug ice.
Prior to the raid, police had set up surveillance at her and Parkinson’s home and caught them discussing the cash linked to the drug.
Police captured her counting and at one stage, she asked Parkinson “how much do you need to get up?” to which he said $12,000 because “they’re giving me three ounces”.
Yousif told Parkinson he needed another $4000 and offered to withdraw $2000 from her own account.
Around the same period, she helped forge a fake driver’s licence and letter from the Indian Consulate to obtain an unrestricted driver’s licence — which cost about $1200 — for Wangaratta man Danny Kearney.
Kearney, 29 and part of the four arrested, served a 12-month jail term for dishonesty offences and participating in a criminal group, court documents state.
Yousif’s partner, Parkinson, appeared in Albury District Court last week on the first day of Yousif’s trial when he was arraigned.
The Albury man pleaded guilty to knowingly direct activities of criminal group, using a false document to influence the exercise of public duty and knowingly take part in the supply of a prohibited drug.
The fourth offender, David Alan Oddy, 67, was sentenced in 2018 to a minimum of 16 months for drug-dealing offences.
Court documents state Oddy went to Melbourne to purchase the drug on behalf of Parkinson.
Police seized Oddy’s car and found the 55.5 grams of ice after they stopped him on the Hume Highway in November 2017.
Following the verdicts yesterday, Yousif was granted bail, which includes her parents providing security over their home in the amount of $1 million.
She is scheduled for sentencing on June 25 at Griffith District Court while Parkinson is set to face Albury District Court on April 29 to learn his punishment.