Atousa Haghighi fronts court over trafficking ice

A Melbourne woman was busted trafficking ice while on bail on serious drug charges.

Atousa Amouzegar Haghighi, the girlfriend of accused drug-dealing criminal barrister Anthony Grant, has been sentenced to a community corrections order for drug trafficking while on bail.

A woman who was caught trafficking ice while on bail on similar charges has escaped a prison sentence.

Atousa Haghighi accepted a sentence indication on serious drug charges, including trafficking ice, and was sentenced in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to a community corrections order for 12 months.

The 34-year-old will receive treatment for drug abuse and mental health as part of her release conditions.

The court heard Haghighi is also facing three charges of trafficking a commercial quantity of drugs, three of possessing illicit drugs, possessing hallucinogenics, possessing a schedule 4 poison, handling stolen goods and possessing ID information.

Those charges are being dealt with separately.

Former barrister and OPP solicitor Anthony Grant is facing serious drugs charges, together with his girlfriend Atousa Haghighi.

The charges followed a raid on her boyfriend and former state prosecutor Anthony Grant’s Queens Rd apartment on August 8, 2024 when police allegedly uncovered 12L of 1,4- Butanediol (used as a source for GHB), 355 tablets and 322 jelly packs of the erectile dysfunction medicine Sildenafil, sold as Viagra, illicit drugs and a prosthetic penis, which can be used to falsify urine drug tests.

Mr Grant, 44, is facing 13 charges including trafficking a commercial quantity of 1,4-Butanediol and possessing drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine.

He is not linked to the charges Haghighi pleaded guilty to this week and was sentenced on Wednesday.

In September 2024, Haghighi was released on bail to private Geelong drug rehabilitation centre Habitat Therapeutics which the court heard costs $31,000 for a 90-day live-in program and would primarily be paid by her private health insurance.

Cash and drugs allegedly found in the home of criminal barrister Anthony Grant. Supplied: Court VIctoria

During a bail check on the Queens Rd apartment on January 9, 2025, police uncovered messages relating to her dealing in ice and cannabis on her Facebook messenger.

A ziplock bag containing methylamphetamine and a significant quantity of drug periphernalia were recovered from the apartment.

Police submitted that the 90-day rehabilitation was insufficient to curb her drug use and that she was taking advantage of the court’s leniency to reoffend while on bail.