WA:Perth man guilty of $6m ecstasy conspiracy

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2011
WA:Perth man guilty of $6m ecstasy conspiracy

A Perth jury has convicted a man of involvement in a six million dollar drug conspiracy.

KOSTA DONCEV was on trial in the Perth District Court, charged with conspiring to possess
ecstasy and attempting to possess the drug with intent to sell and supply in 2007.

The jury returned its guilty verdict on both charges late Friday night.

Judge STEPHEN SCOTT had instructed the jury the prosecution's case was circumstantial,
relying on partial DNA found on a glove, a mobile phone and a sim card, as well as phone
tap conversations between DONCEV and another man.

During the phone conversations, DONCEV instructed another man to dig up a drum full
of drugs from a backyard in Safety Bay in Perth's south, and move it.

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