A PLANNED bid for freedom by Melbourne identity Tony Mokbel has been sensationally scrapped.
Tony Mokbel is expected to use a legal loophole to try to beat charges against him. Supplied Mokbel was expected to use a police stuff-up to try to get off drug charges he has already admitted. Police sources yesterday revealed that Mokbel's lawyers would try to use a legal loophole to beat charges against the notorious gangland boss. Mokbel would have been the first of many criminals and suspects hoping to take advantage of a recent admission by Victoria Police that officers routinely failed to swear an oath when signing affidavits. The embarrassing blunder could render any evidence gained from affidavits used to execute search warrants, bug telephones or install listening and tracking devices unable to be used in prosecutions. The legal team was expected to seek an adjournment in the sentencing process to allow it to check the veracity of documents used by Victoria Police to gather evidence against Mokbel. But Mokbel's lawyer Peter Faris QC appeared before the Supreme Court ...