Victoria Police used taxpayers’ money to help pay off a drug dealer’s “massive” debts in return for giving evidence at an extortion trial, the County Court has heard.
Key points:
- Lawyer says Arthus Vouthas’s evidence against Rocco Arico motivated by police inducements
- Vouthas is key witness against Arico, who is facing charges over a cocaine deal that went wrong
- Arico is accused of ordering Vouthas to kill a man …
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