Looks like crime DOES pay…in Australia! The NSW Crime Commission has confirmed an informant codenamed “Tom” was paid in March 2006 for “sustenance over the next four years”. “That amount was in fact paid by the commission,” a spokesman confirmed yesterday, The Daily Telegraph reported. The decision to give Tom the $200,000 reimbursement was made largely because of the recommendation of disgraced former NSW Crime Commission assistant director Mark Standen, who was using Tom as an informant. Standen was recently found guilty of trying to import 120kg of pseudoephedrine, for which he faces sentencing next month. The Australian Federal Police confirmed this week that, along with the Australian Crime Commission, it had confiscated two amounts totalling $825,000 from Tom, which he had given to the NSW Crime Commission in 2005. Tom handed the commission a further $53,000 in October that year and it, together with the earlier payments and accrued interest, totalled $936,000, which was confiscated by the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions. The money wasn’t the only perk that “Tom” received from the NSW… Tom was also given immunity for crimes ranging from drive-by shootings to kidnap because the NSW Crime Commission considered him such a valuable informant. According to Standen’s testimony, Tom was not allowed to “keep” his money but was given “money in specie” – in other words the drug money was kept by the Commonwealth but an amount equivalent was legitimised and “he was paid an amount of money from commission funds”, Standen said. We’re not exactly sure what part of the game this is, but it’s safe to say that “Tom” is one lucky muhfugga! How many drug dealers turn themselves and their money in and STILL get gwap like this?! Source
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