Australian drug kingpin to be extradited after more than a year in Bangkok prison

A Sydney man accused of overseeing a multi-million dollar Australian drug syndicate is set to be extradited from Thailand seven years after skipping bail in South Australia.


Robert Gordon Pollybank Gee, 60, has been held in a Bangkok prison since he was arrested at a bar on the Thai resort island of Phuket in 2016.


https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2018/02/722.jpgSeven years after fleeing the country while on bail, Robert Gordon Pollybank Gee is set to be extradited back to Australia. Photo: Crime StoppersAustralian Federal Police said Gee fled to Thailand after being granted bail on a $10,000 surety.


He was allowed to keep his passport despite facing serious drugs charges relating to a 2006 South Australian police operation codenamed Crunch.


The operation recovered cocaine and methamphetamines worth $1.2 million and $264,000 in cash.


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Thai authorities said when Gee was arrested in Phuket he was in possession of a fake Canadian passport.
Gee had been listed as among Australia’s most wanted suspects.


A Thai court agreed to an Australian request to extradite Gee because his alleged crimes in Thailand did not involve politics or military-related activities.

Australian drug kingpin to be extradited after more than a year in Bangkok prison

Leave him in a Bangkok gaol. Australian gaols are luxury in comparison.

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Australian drug kingpin

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The operation recovered cocaine and methamphetamines worth $1.2 million and $264,000 in cash.

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Hardly a king pin.

Small time player more like it.

What's in your buckets, LT?...

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What's in your buckets, LT?...

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Pie pastry mix mate. :bananaman:

^ Kingpin...

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An Australian and a Briton sentenced to decades in a Thai jail for drug dealing have lost an appeal to have their term reduced, their legal team has told the Guardian. Jake Mastroianni, 26, a DJ from Melbourne in Victoria, will serve two life sentences and Lance Whitmore, 28, are serving 50 years in Thai prison.

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I pray that you two young lads get the same compassion as this guy and are extradited back to your home countries to serve the remainder of your sentences. Amen

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Seven years after fleeing the country while on bail, Robert Gordon Pollybank Gee is set to be extradited back to Australia. Photo: Crime StoppersAustralian Federal Police said Gee fled to Thailand after being granted bail on a $10,000 surety.

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Thai Visa mod or admin?

Drug trafficker Robert Gee sentenced to almost 20 years in jail after extradition from Thailand

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Robert Gordon Pollybank Gee was sentenced in SA's District Court for crimes dating back to 2006.(ABC News: Che Chorley)

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A man described as being at the apex of a South Australian drug syndicate has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.
Key points:

• An SA man has been sentenced to 19-and-a-half years in prison for drug offences dating back to 2006
• Robert Gordon Pollybank Gee fled to Thailand in 2011 while on bail, and was arrested there in 2016 for passport offences
• He was extradited back to Australia in 2020 and went on trial

Robert Gordon Pollybank Gee, 64, was sentenced in the District Court for drug charges dating back to 2006.
The court heard Gee was pivotal in the operation of a syndicate which trafficked large quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and LSD.
He was one of five men arrested during Operation Crunch in 2006, after police obtained evidence of their activities by monitoring mobile phones and by surveillance.
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Gee fled Australia in 2011 when he was facing drug charges.(Supplied: Crimestoppers)After the arrests, police recovered drugs with an estimated value of $1.2 million from an Adelaide house.
Gee was granted bail, but in 2011 he absconded to Thailand using a forged passport.
He was arrested for passport offences in 2016 and spent more than four years in a Thai jail, where his health deteriorated.
Police applied for his extradition at the end of the sentence and Gee was returned to Australia in 2020 and went on trial.
Justice Julie McIntyre said she had concerns with Gee's testimony that he sold drugs to pay a $400,000 gambling debt.
She told Gee it made little difference to the seriousness of the offending.
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Justice Julie McIntyre set a non-parole period of 12 years, backdated to 2020.(ABC News)Justice McIntyre said his motivation was financial regardless of whether it amounted to no more than paying gambling debts.
She said his role at the apex of the scheme, absconding to Thailand and four previous drug convictions demanded a greater sentence than his co-accused.
Gee was given a head sentence of 19 years and six months with a 12-year non-parole period, backdated to 2020.

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Nicely done, Aus!

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He doesn't have relatives in the Mendip Hills area of Somerset, by any chance?

I'll remember that.

Dill told me to mention it.

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He doesn't have relatives in the Mendip Hills area of Somerset, by any chance?

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that's a hard comment!