THE STATE I'M IN

Video: Drug ring 'ran from prison', 7 arrested

04 Dec 2008
Videos here and here.
NSW Police
Middle Eastern Crime Squad officers today launched a series of dawn raids across Sydney and Melbourne arresting seven men allegedly involved in trafficking $250,000 cocaine, ice and cannabis across State lines every week.

And the alleged mastermind ran the drug operation from his prison cell.

The inmate, who will be charged tomorrow, cannot be identified but is currently being held in a NSW maximum security facility.
Nine News identified him. SMH says 19,000 phone calls (460 per day) were made in Arabic from Lithgow "maximum security" prison.

Update, the Daily Telegraph names him: Bassam Hamzy.

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