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In the days before drug kingpin Tony Mokbel vanished mid-trial, fleeing to Greece, his lawyer Nicola Gobbo told police to keep a close eye on him – and at the same time secretly encouraged him to escape.
Underworld killer Carl Williams warned Tony Mokbel not to trust his barrister-turned-informant Nicola Gobbo. Mokbel was arrested at an Athens coffee shop in Glifatha June 2007, and said that his lawyer Nicola Gobbo advised him to flee overseas.
When Tony Mokbel was returned to Australia from Greece he ignored a plea from the gangland killer not to trust the supergrass barrister.
Jailed crime lord 'Fat' Tony Mokbel has spilled the beans on how detectives crushed his illicit empire at the close of the 'Underbelly War'.
For the first time in more than a decade, former drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has spoken in public, at a trial for his appeal after the Lawyer X scandal.