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A Mackay man played a part in the buying of an aircraft allegedly used to import huge amounts of cocaine from Papua New Guinea into Australia.
In July 2020 a Cessna 402 plane crashed while trying to take off from an airstrip in PNG â located nearby was 549kg of cocaine. A Mackay man pleaded guilty to depositing money linked to the purchased of a Cessna 402C that crashed while allegedly attempting to fly 500kg of cocaine from PNG into Far North Queensland.
On Wednesday, Mitchell Francis Callaghan, now 25, pleaded guilty to dealing with money or property worth less than $100,000 reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime.