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BigTrancerFrail pensioner admits $2m drug import
By STEVE BUTCHER
Friday 2 November 2001
A frail, near-blind, alcoholic invalid pensioner has pleaded guilty to importing one of the largest hauls of the designer drug ecstasy seized in Victoria.
A Melbourne court heard yesterday how Francisco Tarin Soto, 65, was handed 41,800 ecstasy tablets worth up to $2 million by a man called Manuel from Barcelona.
The County Court was told the friendless Spanish national, whose "life pursuit" was drinking, had agreed to act as a courier partly out of boredom.
Tarin Soto was questioned at Melbourne Airport on arrival from London on June 15 this year when customs officers saw the corner of one of 41 plastic bags containing the ecstasy protruding from his suitcase...
Full article at: http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/11/02/FFXZK36VHTC.html
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