Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill knew he was taking part in a cocaine deal but was oblivious about the large scale of the exchange that began under his restaurant.
That is the verdict of a Sydney District Court jury that acquitted the leg-spinner on Thursday of taking part in a large commercial drug supply in April 2021.
The jury heard the illicit exchange of $330,000 for a kilogram of cocaine was struck between MacGill's regular drug dealer and the former cricketer's brother-in-law Marino Sotiropoulos. The cricketer teed up a meeting under his restaurant on Sydney's north shore but denied knowing the deal was to take place.While the jury dismissed the Crown's claims about MacGill's knowledge of a one-kilogram deal, it found him guilty of the lesser charge of taking part in drug supply.
MacGill, whose 44-Test career came in the shadow of cricketing great Shane Warne, showed little emotion as the verdicts were read.: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the
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