The father of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been named by a Queensland police informant as having been involved in smuggling marijuana into Bali, just weeks before his daughter was arrested at Denpasar airport.
Corby was convicted in 2005 for smuggling 4.2kg of marijuana in her boogie
board bag on a flight to the Denpasar, discovered at the airport in October 2004. Corby, 30, who maintains her innocence, is serving a 20-year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan prison.
Corby's late father Michael Corby snr has long been suspected of being involved in his daughter's efforts to smuggle the drugs into Bali, after his neighbour and long-time friend Tony Lewis was arrested following a raid on his property outside Gladstone.
Police found 5kg of vacuum-packed marijuana and thousands of dollars in cash in the September 2004 raid, raising questions that he and Corby, who died of cancer earlier this year, had supplied the marijuana.
ABC says that raid was sparked by information provided to police by informant Kim Moore, who also named a man called Michael as being involved in the drugs trade to Bali.
According to a Queensland Police intelligence report that man, later identified as Michael Corby, was involved in the transportation of drugs to Bali.
Moore, a former heroin addict, made the statement to police just three weeks before Schapelle was arrested. Both men denied Michael Corby had any involvement in the drugs trade.
But in another twist to the saga, Michael Corby's cousin Allan Trembath said Schapelle's father had a 30-year history of selling marijuana.
He felt sorry for Schapelle Corby because "she would have been around drugs all her life".
- AAP
