Friends jailed after hatching plan to fly 180kg of ice into Australia on a converted plane
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AprApril 2021 at 5:25am
The men were trying to import 180 kilograms of ice to Australia, which has an estimated street value of close to $118 million.
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A former RAAF pilot who fostered a child and fundraised for hospitals is behind bars over his failed plan to fly 180kg of ice to Australia.
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The pair tried to import 180 kilograms of the drug ice into Melbourne from the United States
The long-time friends planned to bring the drugs in on a converted plane
Crime by Frances Vinall 20th Apr 2021 3:37 PM A suburban accountant and a grandfather on the age pension have been jailed for a failed scheme to import millions of dollars worth of meth into Australia from the US in a private plane. Peter Caluzzi, 61, and Hugh Gorman, 75, were jailed by the County Court of Victoria on Tuesday for 17 years and 14 years respectively for their attempt to import meth into Australia with a value estimated by police at between $37m and $58m. Judge George Georgiou said Caluzzi s friends and family were shocked when it emerged the relatively successful principal accountant at a Sunshine firm, who had no prior convictions, was secretly a drug trafficker.
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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.
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