Drug Kingpin Tony Mokbel has been freed from jail following a successful bail application.
After spending 18 years in custody, the 59-year-old notorious gangland figure will be released from prison as he awaits his Lawyer X appeal to overturn his remaining drug trafficking convictions.
Mokbel has not tasted freedom since his 2007 arrest in Greece, after he famously absconded inside a yacht while on bail with a $1 million surety from his sister-in-law Renate.
She was jailed after failing to pay the surety, her home seized and she was then sentenced to two years and nine months in 2008 for lying to a court about her assets.
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Mokbel is fighting to overturn drug trafficking convictions, after he pleaded guilty to heading a multi-million dollar drug trafficking empire known as “The Company”.
Mokbel was represented at the time by barrister-turned-supergrass Nicola Gobbo, unaware she was informing for Victoria Police.
More to come …