How police lured a businessman to reveal a $1.5b cocaine network | LucyCormack
With mentions of investment, risk assessments and logistics, the document cited “a board at war with each other,” and the need to “build mutual trust”. The language was formal, polite and business-like.
On Thursday, Arnold, 45, was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court to 27 years in jail for the "vital" role he played in a conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of cocaine, with a potential street value of $1.5 billion. On March 30, 2017 both containers arrived at the Port of Sydney and were examined, with one holding 2576 blocks of cocaine hidden inside prefabricated steel posts.
Over the following months the drug syndicate, which had members both in Australia and abroad, used devices with encrypted Cipher chat software to negotiate a meeting with Ivan and Henry to recover the drugs. "Ivan ... I am begging you to work with me. I don't think you are an authority, but if you are, come and arrest me for my family's sake," he wrote on Cipher, having already offered to pay his own share of "the project" to ensure it was concluded.
But within minutes Serbian authorities stormed the hotel with guns raised and Arnold and his co-accused were face down on the carpet of the hotel lobby.extraordinary sightseeing tour of ParisOn Thursday the court heard an earlier submission from defence barrister Stuart Littlemore, QC, that Arnold was little more than a "delegate or agent" to the three principals of the conspiracy and that his role was "akin to an adviser providing logisitics advice.
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