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An accountant and a pilot have been jailed over an elaborate scheme to fly a quarter of a tonne of the drug ice over the Pacific Ocean and into Melbourne in a light aircraft.
Peter Caluzzi and Hugh Gorman were friends from the Freemasons and in 2016 became embroiled in a plan by former Sydney cafe owner Jim Soukoulis to fly ice from northern California to Melbourne, deliver it to others and make millions of dollars.
The Cessna aircraft that was intended to take the ice from California to Melbourne.
Credit:Australian Federal Police.
On Tuesday in the County Court, Caluzzi, 61, was jailed for 17 years and Gorman, 75, for 14 years after both pleaded guilty to conspiring to import a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug. Caluzzi also pleaded guilty to unrelated drug trafficking in 2013.