Police swoop on a luxury Sydney apartment building, ending the 11-month flight of a problem gambler said to be linked to a colourful former mayor’s decision to carry a bag with $50,000 through a Melbourne airport.
Inside the Sydney apartment, Queensland police will allege, is $207,000 in cash and another $50,000 in poker chips, despite a gambling ban agreed to when the fugitive was released on bail in 2015.
Less than two weeks earlier, the barrister for 32-year-old fugitive Hui Tian dropped his name for the first time to explain former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale’s apparent agreement t…
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