Tony Mokbel Caught in Greece

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Herald Sun - breaking news

Mokbel arrested in Greece
June 05, 2007 12:00am

DEVELOPING STORY: ONE of Australia's most wanted fugitives, convicted drug baron Tony Mokbel, has been arrested in Greece, Victorian police say.

"Victoria Police can confirm that it has received information that Tony Mokbel has been arrested and is in the custody of the Greek authorities," a Victoria Police spokesman said tonight.

"At this stage, due to ongoing operational activity, it would be inappropriate to comment further."

The spokesman could not say exactly when or where Mokbel was arrested.

Mokbel, 41, went missing in March last year when he failed to appear towards the end of his Victorian Supreme Court trial over the importation of 2kg of cocaine.

He was subsequently found guilty of trafficking cocaine and sentenced in absentia to a minimum of nine years' jail.

He has also been charged over the murder of underworld figure Lewis Moran in the front bar of Melbourne's Brunswick Club in March 2004.

In April this year, Victoria Police offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture.

Details of Mokbel and his girlfriend Danielle McGuire, who went missing in Europe last year, have been circulated to Crime Stoppers International and Interpol.

Victoria's top detective, Deputy Commissioner Simon Overland, said at the time the reward was announced a $1 million bounty for Mokbel was justified.

Mr Overland said detectives were hoping to exploit fading loyalties in the underworld.

"We've got no doubt that there are people out there who know where he is, who are probably in regular contact with him," he said.

"Every time he now contacts those individuals, there's going to be a huge seed of doubt in his mind - is this the person whose going to sell me out?

"It also puts a further seed of doubt into the minds of other criminals who are out there about the so-called wall of silence in the criminal underworld."

Late last month, reports surfaced that Mokbel had survived a gun battle with former business associates in Lebanon, long rumoured to have been his overseas haven.

Mokbel and his bodyguards were seen in a shoot-out with the criminal's former business associates in the north Lebanon town of Shikka, according to the reports.

A source said Mokbel was travelling with a group that included relatives with military experience, who were acting as bodyguards.

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Don't know why the chode ran in the first place, they were always going to catch him. Sounds like there is plenty of people around the world who would have took pleasure in informing the police of his whereabouts...

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Don't know why the chode ran in the first place, they were always going to catch him. Sounds like there is plenty of people around the world who would have took pleasure in informing the police of his whereabouts...

$1M dollars would be enough incentive i wouldve need bill...

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Don't know why the chode ran in the first place, they were always going to catch him. Sounds like there is plenty of people around the world who would have took pleasure in informing the police of his whereabouts...

$1M dollars would be enough incentive i wouldve need bill...

Yes, certainly a nice little sweetner!

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Question is how long will he survive in prison before he gets necked.

[Coorong]

Question is how long will he survive in prison before he gets necked.

According to a purana mate not long, But his money will buy him lots of loyalty and time

[Strawb]

yeah and he got caught with a hair piece that greg Matthews wouldn;t even wear Hey Tony its time for advance hair yeah yeah