Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel rushed to hospital from Barwon Prison
The 57-year-old has been taken to Victoria's Geelong Hospital from the nearby Barwon Prison at 8pm on Thursday.
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The 57-year-old has been taken to Victoria's Geelong Hospital from the nearby Barwon Prison at 8pm on Thursday.
In an anti-corruption hearing on Monday, federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne admitted paying for people's party membership fees to boost support for his moderate faction.
The figure has slumped from 50 per cent just two weeks ago and is 19 points below the 63 per cent peak recorded in May, according to an Essential poll released on Tuesday.
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 ...