Tony Mokbel

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Antonios Sajih Mokbel (b. August 8, 1965) is a recently outed Melbourne crime figure. He has been linked to several victims of the Melbourne gangland war. In late 2002 it has been alleged that there was a meeting of more than 10 organised criminals in Carlton. At that meeting it is said that Mokbel was nearly beaten to death by Nik 'The Russian' Radev's bodyguard, West Australian Coffin Cheater Troy Mercanti. Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin was ordered by his then close associate, Dominic 'Mick' Gatto, to take Mokbel to a friendly doctor.

In the following couple of weeks Veniamin and Mokbel became close allies. Nik 'The Russian' Radev was the next underworld identity to perish. After expressing concerns for his safety at his recent trial relating to cocaine importation from Mexico, Mokbel went missing during his trial on the 20th March. It is now alleged that Mokbel has fled Australia with one of seven fake passports and it is said that Mokbel has transferred up to 20 million dollars into offshore accounts.

Mokbel was reported to have paid convicted murderer, Keith Faure, $150,000 for the murder of Lewis Moran, the 23rd victim of the Melbourne gangland killings.

Another notorious Mokbel story is how after being arrested he purposely defecated in the police car just to make them clean it.

It's been revealed that a lover hid fugitive drug baron Tony Mokbel for several days until he could slip out of Australia.

The Herald Sun newspaper said police were too late by the time they identified the woman to confirm she had hidden Mokbel in Melbourne's outer suburbs before he fled overseas a year ago, during his cocaine importation trial.

He was convicted in his absence and was sentenced to at least nine years' jail.

Last week he was also charged with the murder of drug syndicate patriarch Lewis Moran, who was gunned down in 2004 in the front bar of the Brunswick Club in Sydney Road, Brunswick.

In March 2007, Australian Labor Party MP Kelvin Thomson resigned as Shadow Attorney-General on the Opposition front bench after it was revealed that he had written a character reference for Mokbel to assist his application for a liquor licence in 2001.

Tony Mokbel was last seen in Donetsk, Ukraine.