Overview
- The long-awaited hearing is due to begin Tuesday in Melbourne, with Mokbel expected to attend in person.
- He seeks to overturn drug trafficking and importation convictions, arguing they were compromised by barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo.
- A 2024 judgment by Justice Elizabeth Fullerton found police acted in a joint criminal enterprise with Gobbo that perverted the course of justice in his case.
- The Court of Appeal will at the same time consider the DPP’s bid to overturn Fullerton’s findings.
- Mokbel remains on strict bail—GPS monitoring, daily reporting and an 8pm–6am curfew—after 18 years in prison, with a four-day hearing expected and a decision likely to take weeks or months.