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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 X scandal has failed.
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Salvatore Agresta granted bail over Lawyer X scandal pending appeal on drug smuggling convictions
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DecDecember 2020 at 5:01am
Salvatore Agresta is challenging his convictions due to the involvement of Nicola Gobbo, who fed key information to police.
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A major ecstasy importer caught smuggling millions of pills in tomato tins from Italy is the latest person to be freed over links to the Lawyer X saga.
Key points:
Salvatore Agresta was sentenced to 12 years in jail over the importation of ecstasy tablets in tomato tins
He was at one point represented by Nicola Gobbo, who provided the shipping documents for the drugs to Victoria Police