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Sydney man jailed over $70m WA drug plot
Thursday Feb 15 14:54 AEDT
A Sydney man has been jailed for 21 years for trying to smuggle $70 million of cocaine into Western Australia, the second biggest haul ever seized in the state.

David Sukkar was a 23-year-old when he helped Bolivian national Jose Sevilla import 106kg of cocaine into the WA port of Albany in August 2004.

He pleaded guilty on the second day of his trial earlier this month to helping Sevilla, whose English was limited, by using false names to buy mobile phones, rent a cabin and the small dingy for the drug plot.

Sentencing Sukkar on Thursday, WA Supreme Court Justice Lindy Jenkins said Sevilla had collected the drugs in a dingy from Brazilian-registered grain carrier Macros Dias one dark August night, rowed them to a remote beach and hid them in bushland.