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Advertisement Tony Mokbel’s appeal against drug trafficking convictions could be held within six months and will be spearheaded by the same barrister whose success in the High Court led to George Pell’s acquittal and release from prison. Mokbel is serving a 30-year prison term but argues his convictions are tainted because his case was corrupted by the involvement of Nicola Gobbo, who acted as a barrister for the crime boss while also snitching on clients as a registered police informer. Nicola Gobbo with Tony Mokbel. Credit:ninevms Mokbel’s case was one of eight appeals connec...

Former Gobbo clients wait on key documents ahead of appeal hearings We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Jailed drug traffickers who are appealing against their convictions because of their involvements with barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo are still waiting for police to hand over documents they suspect could be crucial in their legal fights. Four former clients of Ms Gobbo, who was their lawyer while snitching on them as a registered police informer, had their cases before the Court of Appeal on Thursday s...

19:03 EDT, 19 December 2020 115 shares Melbourne underworld drug lord Tony Mokbel could be eligible a huge payout for seized assets after charges were overturned.  A legal loophole could allow the drug kingin, 55 to apply for compensation for more than $20million in property, luxury cars and cash seized by police almost two decades ago. It follows the Court of Appeal's decision last week to quash Mokbel's 2006 drug trafficking conviction after accepting he did not get a fair trial due to meddling by his then lawyer Nicola Gobbo - the long-time police informant known as Lawyer X.   The ...

Advertisement One of the men nabbed over the infamous tomato tins ecstasy haul has failed to overturn his conviction after he appealed partly due to the involvement of barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo in his case. Jan Visser was jailed for at least eight years in 2014 after being found guilty of conspiring to possess 15 million ecstasy tablets stashed in tomato tins shipped on the MV Monica from Italy in 2007. Jan Visser (right) seen in an AFP surveillance photo in Melbourne with crime figure Pasquale Barbaro. Visser appealed his conviction on a couple of grounds. He had obtained new st...

comments Jan Visser is serving 11 years behind bars for his role in the tomato tins drug haul The drug syndicate conspied to import a shipment of more than 15 million pills  The shipment of ecstasy pills was imported inside tomato tins from Italy in 2007  Visser appealed on the basis lawyer Nicola Gobbo had meddled in his trial  Gobbo provided police with the bill of lading that led to the arrest of dozens Visser's appeal was knocked back on Friday by the Supreme Court of Appeal   The first of the notorious 'Tomato Tins' drug syndicate to try and escape jail on the back of the 'Lawyer...