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Final drug charges dropped against Tony Mokbel

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One of Australia's most notorious underworld crime figures is officially a free man after final drug charges against him were dropped. Tony Mokbel had faced the prospect of a re-trial after previous convictions were overturned in the wake of the Lawyer X scandal. But Victorian prosecutors say it wouldn't be in the public interest to return him to court.
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