Well a old villain is out even after pleading guilty .... Mr Mokbel after being double crossed by his barrister who was in fact working for the cops. No doubt about his guilt but there is a set of rules that must be followed here in order for our system to function. Funnily the actors have got away without repercussions so is the system broken?
So today we now have the names of the four cops who formed a “joint criminal enterprise”to recruit Nicola Gobbo to dob in Tony Mokbel. Two of them are/were senior cops Jim O'Brien, the head of the former Purana taskforce formed to investigate Melbourne's gangland war, and Inspector Dale Flynn. Also complacent was John Champion, the former director of public prosecutions. Interestingly NONE of them are being charged with a raft of possible charges ranging from corruption to joint criminal enterprise and the then DPP Champion is now a Supreme court judge has been exonerated on the grounds that he "made an error in judgment".
Absolutely, the guilty plea was put to him by his Barrister and one would assume the inducement that was forthcoming with that plea of reduction in sentence etc. Its a fucking huge mess and should this conviction be overturned then Victoria is going to have to compensate him for assets seized that were valued at $20mill back in 2001, Among them was a country pub, former pizza shop, several houses, an apartment complex, horse farm, two shopping complexes and a development site in Brunswick, holiday flat in Noosa, Ferrari, Mercedes and several bank accounts.
And even more surprising is she's already sued the Vic government and won!
And they say crime doesn't pay!
Even when you admit you did the crime!
