Mokbel bids to stop criminal charges
                   
news.com.au     24-Jun-2008          

ACCUSED double killer Tony Mokbel will apply for a stay against his criminal charges in the Supreme Court next month. A hearing scheduled for today in Melbourne Magistrates Court was told the application would be moved to the higher jurisdiction and be heard on July 3, the Herald Sun reported. Mokbel's lawyers will claim his extradition from Greece was an abuse of process. They say he should not have been removed from Greece while an appeal was pending in the European Court of Human Rights. Mokbel was charged with 20 offences, including the murders of Lewis Moran in 2004 and Michael Marshall in 2003. He also faces 18 other charges including trafficking large commercial quantities of drugs and attempting to pervert the course of... [read full story]                    


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