A South Australian man conspiring to smuggle millions of dollars' worth of cocaine from Panama has been sentenced to more than six years in jail.
A South Australian man who helped conspire to smuggle millions of dollars' worth of cocaine from South America to Australia will be jailed until at least mid-2027 for the botched operation which failed because of a"leaky boat".
She said in May 2014, Yavuz went to Flight Centre, at Mawson Lakes, with the mastermind — who went by the codename"George" — a man would accompany the cocaine on the voyage. "The boat would be met by another boat at set coordinates at which time the commodity would be loaded.
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