Tony Mokbel

Mokbel was born in Kuwait, where his Lebanese parents were expatriate workers. The family soon returned to their small village in Lebanon. His family were part of the country's Christian minority and chose to leave the country following sectarian conflict in the lead-up to the Lebanese Civil War.

Mokbel and his family moved to Melbourne when he was eight years old.{{Cite news|date=2019-02-12|title=Tony Mokbel, the drug kingpin who became Australia's most wanted man|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-12/tony-mokbels-life-and-crimes/10801318|access-date=2022-01-17}}{{Cite web|last=Mulvey|first=Paul|date=2019-02-12|title=Mokbel's fears finally face reality|url=https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/5901320/mokbels-fears-finally-face-reality/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=The Islander|language=en-AU}} They settled in the suburb of Brunswick, with his father working at the Ford factory and his mother at a meat factory. He spoke no English upon arrival in Australia and struggled at school, attending St Margaret Mary's Primary School, Brunswick High School and Moreland High School but was a keen Australian rules football player.

Mokbel's father drowned at Bondi Beach in Sydney on his 16th birthday. He would later reflect that this left him "dirty on the world" and led to him dropping out of school. Mokbel had no criminal record prior to his father's death; a psychological profile completed following his incarceration concluded that this was a defining moment in his life.

Having left school, Mokbel began working as a dishwasher at a nightclub.{{Cite web|last=Petrie|first=Selma Milovanovic, Tony Wright and Andrea|date=2011-04-19|title=King without a crown|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/king-without-a-crown-20110419-1dnju.html|access-date=2022-01-19|website=The Age|language=en}} He took various other jobs in the next years, before purchasing a milk bar with his wife at age 19.{{Cite web|last=Mulvey|first=Paul|date=2019-02-12|title=Mokbel's fears finally face reality|url=https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/5901320/mokbels-fears-finally-face-reality/|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Bendigo Advertiser|language=en-AU}}{{Cite news|last1=Hunt|first1=Elissa|last2=Murphy|first2=Padraic|date=2011-04-19|title=The pizza cook who became Mr Big|work=The Advertiser|url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/tony-mokbel-pleads-guilty-to-drug-related-charges/news-story/55503c4105faddcd5186291604210281|access-date=2022-01-19}} Together with his brother, he bought a pizza shop three years later, and would own and operate many other businesses throughout his career.{{Cite web|last=Petrie|first=Ben Butler and Andrea|date=2012-08-16|title=On $160 a week, Mokbel amassed millions: documents|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/on-160-a-week-mokbel-amassed-millions-documents-20120816-249xe.html|access-date=2022-01-19|website=The Age|language=en}}

Mokbel was first arrested for a street brawl aged 18, and first incarcerated in 1992, having been caught attempting to bribe a judge.{{Cite news|date=2019-02-12|title=Tony Mokbel, the drug kingpin who became Australia's most wanted man|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-12/tony-mokbels-life-and-crimes/10801318|access-date=2022-01-19}} It was after this imprisonment that Mokbel became increasingly involved in the trafficking of drugs in Melbourne, in part to fund his accelerating gambling habit.{{Cite web|last=Oakes|first=Dan|date=2012-07-03|title=Father's death a catalyst for life of crime|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/fathers-death-a-catalyst-for-life-of-crime-20120703-21flj.html|access-date=2022-01-17|website=The Age|language=en}} He initially dealt in marijuana, then moved in to speed and later ecstasy pills as well. Mokbel found success in this trade, and rapidly gained wealth and notoriety throughout the next decade, forming an enterprise known as The Company.{{Cite news |date=2019-02-14 |title=The drug cook, the boss, the driver: The men who could walk free over the Informer 3838 scandal |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-15/informer-3838-how-lawyer-x-scandal-could-set-tony-mokbel-free/10809480 |access-date=2022-06-25}}

In 1997, Mokbel luckily escaped injury and charges when one of his drug labs, worth 78 million dollars, exploded with him in it.{{Cite news|last=Moor|first=Keith|date=2014-03-06|title=Two-up Tony caught on film|work=Herald Sun|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/rare-uncovered-footage-shows-drug-lord-tony-mokbel-at-the-height-of-his-powers-taking-on-melbournes-twoup-king/news-story/08c210741bbb4a568b6f0a9d1447020f|access-date=2022-01-19}} This did not stymie the growth of his wealth in these years; by 2000, Mokbel owned a Ferrari car, expensive property, and racehorses. Indicating the scale of his operations at this time, it is known that Mokbel organised and received a shipment of ephedrine great enough to make two billion dollars of street drugs in late 2000.

It has been alleged that in late 2002 there was a meeting of more than ten Melbourne organised crime figures in Carlton. At that meeting, it is said that Mokbel was beaten, nearly to death, by Nik Radev's bodyguard, Western Australian Troy Mercanti, who was a member of the Coffin Cheaters motorcycle gang.[http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=7515 Melbourne’s fatal gang wars came to Perth, court told] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614133631/http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=7515 |date=14 June 2007 }} - The West Australian, 2006-09-21 Andrew Veniamin was ordered by his then close associate, Mick Gatto, to take Mokbel to a female doctor. In the following couple of weeks, Mick Gatto was told that Veniamin and Mokbel became close allies.

Mokbel was alleged to have laundered over $2 million through At the Top of the Town, a high-profile Melbourne CBD brothel which he purchased through a business associate. One of Mokbel's amphetamine producers also ran a brothel in the Melbourne south-eastern suburbs while another Mokbel gang member who trafficked large amounts of drugs for Mokbel also ran a brothel.[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21641647-661,00.html "Business washed drug cash" by Keith Moor] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306051907/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21641647-661,00.html |date=6 March 2009 }} Herald Sun 2007-04-30,"The Industrial Vagina Chapter 8: The State as a Pimp, p189" by Sheila Jeffreys"

By the end of the 1990s, police had become increasingly aware of the scale of Mokbel's drugs trafficking operations. A prominent drug dealer turned police informant was used to gather evidence on Mokbel's importations between October 2000 and August 2001. Mokbel was arrested in August 2001 for a small importation of cocaine of the previous year. He was bailed in 2002, but while on bail, he was caught attempting to organise an importation of drugs chemicals through an undercover AFP officer. He was arrested on associated charges in September 2005, but again was granted bail.{{Cite news|last=Moor|first=Keith|date=2014-03-06|title=Two-up Tony caught on film|work=Herald Sun|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/rare-uncovered-footage-shows-drug-lord-tony-mokbel-at-the-height-of-his-powers-taking-on-melbournes-twoup-king/news-story/08c210741bbb4a568b6f0a9d1447020f|access-date=2022-01-20}}

While still awaiting trial in early 2006, Mokbel received intelligence that Operation Purana officers intended to charge him with murder for his alleged role in two of the Melbourne gangland killings. He therefore skipped bail and fled after 19 March. Mokbel first hid himself at a friend's house in Bonnie Doon, Victoria, while an associate made preparations for a maritime escape to Greece.{{Cite web|last=Hagan|first=John Silvester and Kate|date=2011-04-19|title=Tony's flight in a luxury yacht|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/tonys-flight-in-a-luxury-yacht-20110419-1dn1m.html|access-date=2022-01-21|website=The Age|language=en}} A team of Greek sailors were recruited, and a yacht was purchased and transported to Fremantle, Western Australia, where Mokbel was then driven in two hired vehicles. He set sail on November 11, and arrived in Greece on 24 December 2006.

While Mokbel was in hiding in Greece, police laid the murder charge that had provoked his flight. Mokbel was charged with Lewis Moran's murder on 28 February 2007.[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21301146-5006785,00.html Mokbel on Moran murder charge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306052411/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21301146-5006785,00.html|date=6 March 2009}} - The Australian, 2007-02-28 Police alleged that he and Carl Williams paid Keith Faure and Evangelos Goussis $150,000 for the March 2004 murder of Lewis Moran.{{Cite web |last=Gregory |first=Peter |date=2006-05-03 |title=$150,000 to kill crime boss |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/150-000-to-kill-crime-boss-20060504-gdnh54.html |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Petrie|first=Andrea|date=2011-10-24|title=Moran killer appeals conviction|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/moran-killer-appeals-conviction-20111024-1mg53.html|access-date=2022-01-23|website=The Age|language=en}} Faure and Goussis were both convicted of the murder, but Mokbel was acquitted in September 2009. He was also charged in 2007 with the October 2003 murder of suspected drug dealer Michael Marshall,{{Cite web|date=2007-06-22|title=Mokbel charged with Marshall murder|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/mokbel-charged-with-marshall-murder-20070622-gdqg9b.html|access-date=2022-01-17|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}} but prosecutors later withdrew this charge.{{Cite web|last1=Petrie|first1=Andrea|last2=Lowe|first2=Adrian|date=2011-04-19|title=Tony Mokbel faces life in jail after guilty pleas|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/underworld-drug-lord-mokbel-faces-life-in-jail-after-guilty-pleas-20110419-1dmx8.html|access-date=2022-01-17|website=The Age|language=en-AU}}

Mokbel became Australia's most wanted fugitive,{{Cite web|last=Hope|first=Zach|date=2019-07-26|title=Tony Mokbel and other criminals appealing convictions over Informer 3838 scandal|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/tony-mokbel-and-other-criminals-appealing-convictions-over-informer-3838-scandal-20190726-p52b1e.html|access-date=2022-01-21|website=The Age|language=en}} until his eventual arrest by Greek police in Athens on 5 June 2007.[http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bewigged-mokbel-nabbed-in-cafe/2007/06/06/1180809556420.html Disguised Mokbel grabbed at seaside cafe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727220154/http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bewigged-mokbel-nabbed-in-cafe/2007/06/06/1180809556420.html|date=27 July 2009}} - The Age, 2007-06-06 Prior to his arrest, there was a $1 million bounty for information leading to his capture.{{Cite web |date=2007-04-10 |title=$1m on crime boss's head |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/1m-on-crime-bosss-head-20070410-gdpvnk.html |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}[http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/1m-mokbel-reward-up-for-grabs/2007/06/06/1181089128357.html $1m Mokbel reward up for grabs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305232632/http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/1m-mokbel-reward-up-for-grabs/2007/06/06/1181089128357.html|date=5 March 2009}} - The Age, 2007-06-06

On 5 July 2007, Australia made a formal request to Greece for Mokbel's extradition. Mokbel made appeals against the extradition in three Australian courts, as well as the Athens Court of Appeal, Greek Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).{{Cite web|title=Extradition while application to ECHR pending does not justify stay of proceedings|url=https://www.hrlc.org.au/human-rights-case-summaries/extradition-while-application-to-echr-pending-does-not-justify-stay-of-proceedings|access-date=2022-01-25|website=Human Rights Law Centre|date=17 May 2013 |language=en-AU}} These attempts were all unsuccessful, and on 8 May 2008, the Greek justice minister finally ratified the Greek Supreme Court's decision thus enabling Mokbel's extradition.{{cite news|title=Greek court orders Mokbel's extradition - World - theage.com.au|location=Melbourne|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/greek-court-orders-mokbels-extradition/2008/03/18/1205602387179.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321202200/http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/greek-court-orders-mokbels-extradition/2008/03/18/1205602387179.html|archive-date=March 21, 2008}}{{Cite web|date=2008-05-08|title=Mokbel on his way home|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/mokbel-on-his-way-home-20080508-gdscrr.html|access-date=2022-01-25|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}} Lebanon had also made a simultaneous request to Greece for Mokbel's extradition, which an international law expert described as "strange", leading to reported speculation that Mokbel had bribed Lebanese authorities to make the request.{{Cite news|date=2007-10-16|title=Lebanese request for Mokbel prompts claims of bribery|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-10-16/lebanese-request-for-mokbel-prompts-claims-of/700480|access-date=2022-01-25}} Lebanon would not extradite Mokbel to Australia, as he is a Lebanese citizen, and so successful extradition to Lebanon would have enabled his permanent escape.{{Cite news|date=2007-09-28|title=Lebanon vs Australia in bid to get Mokbel|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-09-28/lebanon-vs-australia-in-bid-to-get-mokbel/684104|access-date=2022-01-25}}

On 17 May 2008, Mokbel arrived at Melbourne Airport aboard a Gulfstream jet along with eight Lebanese men. The cost of the $450,000 jet trip drew some criticism, but the Victorian state said they intended to regain the costs by seizure of Mokbel's criminal earnings.{{cite news|author=Richard Kerbaj|date=19 May 2008|title=Tony Mokbel to be billed for return|publisher=The Australian|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23720113-5006785,00.html}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Upon his return to Australia, Mokbel immediately began serving a twelve year prison sentence, having been convicted in absentia for a 2000 importation of Mexican cocaine.{{Cite web|date=2021-04-16|title=Court orders fresh trial for Tony Mokbel|url=https://thewest.com.au/news/crime/court-wants-fresh-trial-for-tony-mokbel-c-2608033|access-date=2022-01-19|website=The West Australian|language=en}} In July 2012, Mokbel was further sentenced to 30 years with a minimum term of 22 years in the Supreme Court of Victoria, having pleaded guilty to three charges associated with his role in The Company drug syndicate.{{cite news|date=3 July 2012|title=Drug kingpin Mokbel sentenced to 30 years|publisher=News Limited|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-03/mokbel-sentenced-delivered/4107384}}

On 27 February 2012, Mokbel suffered a mild heart attack.{{cite news |date=27 February 2012 |title=Mokbel in hospital, may miss court |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/mokbel-in-hospital-may-miss-court-20120227-1tx59.html |access-date=2024-02-10 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=}} On 11 February 2019, Mokbel was stabbed in Barwon Prison.{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/tony-mokbel-seriously-injured-in-barwon-prison-stabbing-20190212-p50x4f.html|title='Annoyed' cons may have shivved Mokbel after he bragged about release|first=Melissa Cunningham, Cameron Houston, Simone Fox Koob, Adam|last=Carey|date=11 February 2019|website=The Age|access-date=12 February 2019}}

Mokbel appealed his convictions on the basis that his barrister, Nicola Gobbo, was simultaneously acting as a police informant (see Lawyer X scandal).{{Cite web|last=Cooper|first=Adam|date=2021-11-18|title=Further delay to Tony Mokbel appeal case frustrates his lawyer|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/further-delay-to-tony-mokbel-appeal-case-frustrates-his-lawyer-20211118-p59a0y.html|access-date=2022-01-22|website=The Age|language=en}} His appeal of his 2006 conviction for cocaine importation was successful, although he had already entirely served that sentence;{{Cite news|date=2020-12-14|title=Tony Mokbel has cocaine importation conviction quashed over Lawyer X scandal|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-15/tony-mokbel-cocaine-importation-conviction-quashed-over-lawyer-x/12984498|access-date=2022-01-22}} his appeal of the 2012 convictions is ongoing. In 2023, Mokbel's sentence was reduced from 30 years with a non-parole period of 22 years to a 26-year sentence with a 20-year non-parole period. The appeals judge announced that there were several factors that were also considered in reducing the sentence, including a 2019 prison yard assault and the impact COVID-19 had on the prison system. The reduced sentence meant that Mokbel was to be eligible for parole by 2031.{{Cite web|last=Pearson|first=Erin|date=2023-03-07|title=Tony Mokbel's sentence reduced by Court of Appeal after Lawyer X scandal|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/tony-mokbel-s-sentence-reduced-by-court-of-appeal-20230307-p5cpyy.html|access-date=2023-03-07|website=The Age|language=en}} Mokbel was released on bail on 4 April 2025.[https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/tony-mokbel-wins-freedom-for-the-first-time-in-18-years-20250402-p5log9.html Drug kingpin to fugitive to free man: Mokbel walks after 18 years behind bars] Sydney Morning Herald 4 April 2025

Mokbel married Carmel DeLorenzo in 1989.{{Cite book|last1=Silvester|first1=John|title=Underbelly: The Gangland War|last2=Rule|first2=Andrew|publisher=Sly Ink|year=2008|isbn=978-0-9775440-6-6|pages=45}} They had worked alongside each other before their marriage at Mokbel's milk bar,{{Cite web|last=Silvester|first=John|date=2017-03-17|title=Catching Tony Mokbel: The big win that proves we lose|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/catching-tony-mokbel-the-big-win-that-proves-we-lose-20170316-guzbat.html|access-date=2022-01-22|website=The Age|language=en}} and continued to work together for several years at his pizza restaurant.{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=Elissa|date=3 July 2012|title=Tony Mokbel, the man behind the wig|url=https://amp.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/tony-mokbel-the-man-behind-the-wig/news-story/fb795e4f7294139be5321f5370e1fcc7|access-date=2022-01-22|website=amp.heraldsun.com.au}} Mokbel and DeLorenzo had two children together, named Sajih and Susan Mokbel.{{Cite web|last=Operation Purana Intelligence Cell|date=9 August 2019|title=Operation Posse: Operational Assessment into the Mokbel Criminal Cartel|url=https://www.rcmpi.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/Exhibit%20RC0314b%20Operation%20Posse%20Operational%20Assessment%20into%20the%20Mokbel%20Criminal%20Cartel%2C%20April%202005%2C%20tendered%209%20August%202019.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326031916/https://www.rcmpi.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/Exhibit%20RC0314b%20Operation%20Posse%20Operational%20Assessment%20into%20the%20Mokbel%20Criminal%20Cartel%2C%20April%202005%2C%20tendered%209%20August%202019.pdf|archive-date=26 March 2021}} Mokbel had numerous affairs during his marriage to Carmel,{{Cite news|last=Dowsley|first=Anthony|date=2011-04-19|title=Tony shows an achy breaky heart|work=The Advertiser|url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/tony-mokbel-pleads-guilty-to-drug-related-charges/news-story/5e8ec4cc7759af57c3ab1dc90fee6eda|access-date=2022-01-22}} and in late 2000 left his wife and began a long-term relationship with Danielle McGuire (although Carmel and Mokbel's divorce was only finalised in 2006). Mokbel and McGuire had one child together, born in 2006 and named Renate after Mokbel's sister-in-law. McGuire separated from Mokbel in 2007 while he was incarcerated.

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• {{cite AustLII|VSCA|64|1998|litigants=R v Moran & Mokbel|date=9 October 1998|courtname=Court of Appeal (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|403|2001|litigants=DPP v Mokbel|date=19 October 2001|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|127|2002|litigants=Mokbel v DPP|date=26 April 2002|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|312|2002|litigants=Mokbel v DPP (No 2)|date=9 August 2002|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|393|2002|litigants=Mokbel v DPP (No 3)|date=4 September 2002|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|410|2005|litigants=R v Mokbel|date=4 November 2005|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|476|2005|litigants=Mokbel v DPP|date=13 December 2005|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|502|2005|litigants=R v Mokbel (No 2)|date=19 December 2005|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|119|2006|litigants=R v Mokbel|date=31 March 2006|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|FCA|1536|2007|litigants=Mokbel v Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia|date=5 October 2007|courtname=Federal Court}}.
• {{cite AustLII|FCAFC|161|2007|litigants=Mokbel v Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia|date=12 October 2007|courtname=Federal Court (Full Court)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSCA|11|2010|litigants=R v Mokbel|date=11 February 2010|courtname=Court of Appeal (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSCA|51|2010|litigants=News Digital Media Pty Ltd v Mokbel|date=18 March 2010|courtname=Court of Appeal (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSC|255|2012|litigants=R v Mokbel|date=3 July 2012|courtname=Supreme Court (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSCA|118|2013|litigants=Mokbel v R|date=17 May 2013|courtname=Court of Appeal (Vic)}}.
• {{cite AustLII|VSCA|83|2022|litigants=Mokbel v R|date=5 June 2022|courtname=Court of Appeal (Vic)}}.

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Mokbel is played by actor Robert Mammone in the Australian drama TV series Underbelly and Fat Tony & Co. Mokbel was the main character of the latter series.

Robert Mammome reprised his role as Tony in Channel 9's 2020 series Informer 3838.

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• {{Cite book |last=Houlihan |first=Liam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/730004054 |title=Bigwig : the remarkable rise and fall of Tony Mokbel |date=2011 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |isbn=978-0-7322-9002-3 |location=Pymble, N.S.W. |oclc=730004054}}

• {{cite news|first=Gary |last=Hughes |title=The gangster, the consultant, the MP and her husband |date=April 23, 2007 |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21610195-601,00.html |work=The Australian |access-date=2007-04-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528011241/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21610195-601,00.html |archive-date=May 28, 2007 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081122054508/http://www.theage.com.au/news/Crime--Corruption/Mokbel-drug-counts-dropped-bail-extended/2005/02/15/1108230006676.html Mokbel drug counts dropped, bail extended] - The Age, 2005-02-15
• [http://thegembar.wordpress.com/2004/06/03/accused-drug-supremo-barred-from-casino/ Accused drug supremo barred from casino] - The Age, 2004-06-02
• [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2006/1604817.htm# Why did 'Fat Tony' get bail?]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080228025004/http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/tony.mokbel.htm Antonios Sajih Mokbel at Melbournecrime.com]

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