Crime by Vanda Carson
Premium Content IT HAD all the hallmarks of a Hollywood action movie: $255m worth of cocaine, black flights, encrypted phones, mafia, death threats, a mysterious killing and secret meetings over pizza in suburban restaurants. Details of one of the nation s largest alleged cocaine plots have been revealed in the Supreme Court in Cairns where the alleged boss of the drug plot Salvatore Sam Formica, 34, from Niddrie in Melbourne s northwest, was successful in seeking bail last month on cocaine importation and attempted importation charges. Salvatore “Sam” Formica allegedly depositing cash into an account to maintain a smuggling plane.
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