The letter that details Tony Mokbel’s plan to walk free from jail
Gangland bigwig Tony Mokbel has detailed why he’s so confident of winning freedom, the convicted drug trafficker outlining his strategy in this jailhouse letter obtained by the Sunday Herald Sun.
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Drug boss Tony Mokbel has detailed his plan to walk free from jail.
In a letter obtained by the Sunday Herald Sun the convicted drug trafficker outlines how he will prove his lawyer Nicola Gobbo had been informing on him – and that prosecutors also knew.
In the typed letter, Mokbel says he aims to prove his prosecution was “corrupted’ and warns he will not back off.
“I’ve come up with a strategy that it will make a lot of people nervous … coz this is going to light up the Appeal Court and The Prosecution,’’ it reads.
“I believe I have found a way, of exposing the Prosecution about them knowing that Ms Gobbo was a police informer back in 2006 and also the Supreme Court knew about Ms Gobbo been (sic) double agent and a police informer back in early 2009.
“If I’m right [I know I’m right] I should be able to prove that, my Court proceedings were corrupted and the Court System were all on board for that to happen.
“And that’s where I think my lawyers are going to be uncomfortable with, but I’m not going to back off.’’
Mokbel is supremely confident he will win his freedom and has been agitating for his lawyers to get him bail so he can see his dying brother who has a degenerative disease.
The gangland bigwig’s new claims come as a team of lawyers prepare to fight a Supreme Court battle to quash his multiple drug trafficking convictions.
The crux of his appeal will be that his 2008 extradition from Greece to Australia was corrupted by the use of Gobbo by Victoria Police.
Gobbo continued to speak to him as his lawyer while informing on him following his capture in Greece in June 2007.
While informing on Mokbel she divulged his legal strategy while charging him $1800 in legal fees.
The Lawyer X royal commission has not found evidence any prosecutor was aware of Gobbo’s informer status prior to 2011.
Several high-level legal and police sources have queried whether the commission has dug deep enough.
Mokbel’s new case, in essence, is similar to the appeal he argued in 2013 when he challenged the validity of his extradition.
But Mokbel did not know about Gobbo’s involvement in getting him back to Australia when he was calling her while sitting in a Greek prison.
Gobbo, unbeknown to him, had been a registered police informer 3838 since September, 2005.
Notes written by Victoria Police chief legal counsel Fin McRae in September, 2012, flagged the extradition issue with the Director of Public Prosecution’s office.
But no one disclosed the issue to Mokbel when he appealed in 2013.
Mokbel is serving a 30-year sentence with a minimum 22-years before he is eligible for parole.
If he fails, he will be aged 67 before he can walk free from jail in 2033.
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