NSW:Standen's co-conspirator already jailed

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2011
NSW:Standen's co-conspirator already jailed

By Margaret Scheikowski

SYDNEY, Aug 11 AAP - One of the men involved in a drug importation plot with former
NSW crime investigator Mark Standen has already admitted the crime and been jailed.

Sydney foodstuffs businessman Bakhos "Bill" Jalalaty, 48, was jailed last December
for a minimum of six years and a maximum of 10 years by Justice Bruce James.

The NSW Supreme Court jury at Standen's trial was not told of his guilty plea.

But after the former NSW Crime Commission investigator was convicted of three offences
on Thursday, the judge lifted suppression orders relating to Jalalaty.

In May last year, he pleaded guilty to conspiring with Standen and others, between
early 2006 and June 2008, to import 300 kilograms of pseudoephedrine, used to make the
drugs speed and ice.

Standen was convicted of a similar offence which also named as a conspirator drug trafficker-turned-informant
James Kinch.

The 54-year-old was also found guilty of taking part in the supply of 300kg of the
substance and guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

When sentencing Jalalaty, the judge said his role was to develop his legitimate food
importing and distribution business so that a shipment of rice, with pseudoephedrine concealed
in it, would be less likely to attract attention.

"Standen had the important role of corruptly advising the other conspirators and corruptly
using resources available to him with the NSW Crime Commission and with other agencies
such as customs, to further the carrying out of the criminal enterprise," he said

He accepted that Jalalaty was naive and inexperienced in the importation of illicit
drugs and that he was to some extent taken advantage of by the other conspirators.

Jalalaty "believed he would make millions of dollars as his share of the profits of
the criminal enterprise", the judge found.

He received a 40 per cent discount for his guilty plea and assistance.

He will be eligible for release on parole in June 2014, taking account of time served
since he first went into custody.

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