FED: Corby associates named as part of drug ring - report

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2007
FED: Corby associates named as part of drug ring - report

SYDNEY, Dec 8 AAP - It's been revealed that four associates of convicted drug smuggler
Schapelle Corby were named in a police intelligence report as being part of a ring that
transported drugs between Brisbane and Bali - three weeks before she was arrested at Denpasar
Airport with cannabis in her boogie board bag.

Fairfax newspapers say a 2004 police intelligence report quotes a witness, Kim Moore,
alleging the four people were involved in manufacturing amphetamines in Brisbane that
were then transported in powder and tablet form to Bali in a "dark coloured suitcase surrounded
by oily paper within a false bottom".

Corby, now 30, and her family have long claimed she was a victim and that her bag was
used by drug smugglers. She is serving a 20-year sentence at Kerobokan prison in Bali.

Ms Moore, now 52, made her report to police on September 16, 2004 - 22 days before
Corby was arrested with cannabis in Bali on October 8. The report has been obtained by
the ABC radio program PM, Fairfax says. Ms Moore last night told Fairfax she was in hiding,
fearing for her life from the men involved in the drug ring. She said she made her report
after one of the men in the group offered cannabis to her intellectually disabled son,
who is now 22.

"[They] tried to get him onto marijuana and then the hard stuff, heroin," Ms Moore told Fairfax.

She said she was a former heroin addict but had been clean for 20 years. The Queensland
Police Service described her as a reliable witness, PM reported.

Ms Moore told Fairfax the men also dealt in heroin. They "were transporting marijuana
as well as the powder form, tablet [form] of heroin up and down the coast from Brisbane

and across to Bali via Sydney and Brisbane airport". She said the drug ring ran from
"before 2000 until I put it in to police in 2004". Ms Moore said she then obtained a sample
of cannabis from the group and gave it to police.

She had made a report to police in 2003 but said this was ignored. But she said her
later report led to a police raid in Gladstone in September 2004. It had been a success
and police broke up a commercial cannabis operation, PM reported.

"When I brought them more information and everything else and they did the raid, and
I even got a sample of the marijuana that went overseas," she told Fairfax. "But Schapelle
had been caught and the evidence destroyed so we couldn't put the two lots [of cannabis]
together." Corby's half-brother, James Kisina, 20, was convicted last year of stealing
drugs during a home invasion. Another half-brother, Clinton Rose, was convicted of drug
possession while her father, Michael Corby, was fined in the 1970s for possessing cannabis.

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