Home | Community | Message Board

World Seed Supply
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Kraken Kratom Shop: Kratom Capsules for Sale

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleEarth Child


Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
Pasquale Barbaro faces trial on alleged $440m ecstasy import bid [AU]
    #14046463 - 03/01/11 12:51 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

A MAN who is alleged to be the "Mr Big" behind a plot to import a world-record $440 million haul of ecstasy into Australia was committed to stand trial this afternoon.
Magistrate Simon Garnett rejected an application by Pasquale Barbaro to adjourn his committal hearing after he announced to the court that he had sacked his legal team.

Mr Garnett said there was sufficient evidence in the police hand-up brief of evidence to convince him that a jury properly instructed could convict Mr Barbaro of the six charges he faces.

He committed him to stand trial on one charge in the Supreme Court and on five charges in the County Court.

It is alleged that Mr Barbaro, 49, from Griffith, New South Wales, attempted to import more than 15 million tablets of MDMA, or ecstasy, weighing more than a tonne in tomato tins which were offloaded in Melbourne from Italy.

Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.
Related CoverageImport scheme: Pair jailed over 'evil' cocaine bid
Court date: Ricky Nixon to face driving charge
.End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.
He is also charged with importing 150kg of cocaine and laundering millions of dollars in drug money.

Earlier today in Melbourne Magistrates' Court Mr Barbaro told the judge that he was in the process of appointing a new legal team and it would need three months to examine over 300 folders of evidence in the police brief.

But Mr Garnett said that today's committal date was set nearly nine months ago and he had been given ample opportunity to prepare.

A number of co-accused have had their committals heard in the same court in the past month.

Mr Barbaro has been charged that on various dates between May 2007 and August 2008 he conspired to import a commercial quantity of MDMA, trafficked a commercial quantity of MDMA, and imported a quantity of cocaine.

It is also alleged he conspired to import a precursor chemical, dealt with $7.4 million which were the proceeds of crime and received or possessed sums of money that were the proceeds of crime.

Mr Garnett asked Mr Barbaro how he pleaded to the six counts and he replied “at this stage not guilty your Honour''.

The magistrate remanded him to appear at preliminary hearings in the Supreme Court on March 15 and in the County Court on June 6.

Mr Barbaro made no application for bail.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/pasquale-barbaro-faces-trial-on-alleged-440m-ecstasy-import-bid/story-e6frf7kx-1226014235030


--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.


My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Kraken Kratom Shop: Kratom Capsules for Sale


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Texas Mom Faces Trial For Selling Dildos DiploidM 2,015 10 09/29/04 04:54 PM
by Dreamer987
* Schapelle Corby Case
( 1 2 3 4 ... 24 25 )
veggieM 182,122 495 03/22/15 02:11 PM
by Cloud9
* Father Of Suspect Speaks
( 1 2 all )
motamanM 6,572 25 11/15/04 06:32 PM
by Catalysis
* Mather Student Arrested on Drug Charges AnnoA 2,840 1 11/26/04 10:39 AM
by Anno
* Ex-cop indicted on Class X charges [IL] veggieM 5,189 14 10/29/05 09:44 AM
by veggie
* Flatbread murder trial put on hold AnnoA 2,923 1 04/06/04 05:15 PM
by Anno
* Federal judge denies convicted pot guru new trial motamanM 2,936 1 05/17/03 06:09 AM
by Seuss
* ANOTHER Aussie faces drugs death penalty veggieM 1,136 0 08/23/05 03:27 AM
by veggie

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
479 topic views. 0 members, 13 guests and 2 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.019 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 13 queries.