Convicted drug trafficker and crime boss Tony Mokbel has been taken to hospital from Victoria's maximum-security Barwon Prison to hospital for unknown reasons.
Jailed drug trafficker and underworld figure Tony Mokbel has been transferred to hospital in Victoria for unknown reasons.Mokbel is serving a 30-year sentence in Barwon Prison for drug offencesCorrections Victoria said a prisoner was taken to hospital last night by non-urgent ambulance."Corrections Victoria does not comment on individual prisoners or their placements," a spokesperson said.
In 2019, Mokbel was stabbed by to inmates at the maximum-security prison, suffering critical injuries.skipped bail in 2006 while on trial for cocaine importation , and hid in Bonnie Doon in Central Victoria before being driven to Western Australia, where he set sail for Europe on a yacht, hidden in a secret compartment with its own toilet.
Even while in hiding in Greece, Mokbel continued to run his drug syndicate, organising the trafficking of $4 million worth of speed. Despite being disguised in a wig, Mokbel was arrested by Greek police in a cafe in a seaside suburb of Athens in June 2007, 15 months after fleeing Melbourne.
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