Australian Expat Dino Rossetto Arrested With 40 Grams of Meth in Sihanoukville, Cambodia

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jaynewcastle wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:18 am The lowlife looks about 70 years old
That was what I thought, he looks normal for his age in the passport picture but looks old and withered and fucked up now.
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He's appealing for his conviction to be dropped.

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50619909/a ... n-dropped/
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the drugs seized from his home belonged to a Cambodian man named James
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"Australian man Dino Rossetto will spend five years in a Cambodian jail for drug offences after the country's Supreme Court in Phnom Penh upheld his conviction."

"He initially filed an appeal with Cambodia's Appeal Court, but that court upheld the guilty verdict in July 2018."

"The 51-year-old Rossetto was sentenced to five years jail by a court in Sihanoukville in January 2018 under Article 40 of the country's drug laws. "

"The Australian man claimed in court last week that the drugs were not his and that he had been set up by a Cambodian man, Tiger, with whom he had a dispute over the sale of a motor bike, according to the Phnom Penh Post."

"Rossetto and his family have opened a restaurant in Sihanoukville but his family did not appear in court on Monday when a panel of judges handed down its verdict."

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So how much will the old bill value 40grams of this Meth stuff and how long is the normal sentence for such amount, I admit before someone takes the piss that I don’t know FA about this meth drug.
Is five years a normal sentence for foreigners and locals
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DaveG wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:41 pm So how much will the old bill value 40grams of this Meth stuff and how long is the normal sentence for such amount, I admit before someone takes the piss that I don’t know FA about this meth drug.
Is five years a normal sentence for foreigners and locals
I don't know but maybe $100 a gram? A large amount like that can get you 15 years or more.
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Never, ever get involved with anything like this stuff. Bad,bad stuff.
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John Bingham wrote:
DaveG wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:41 pm So how much will the old bill value 40grams of this Meth stuff and how long is the normal sentence for such amount, I admit before someone takes the piss that I don’t know FA about this meth drug.
Is five years a normal sentence for foreigners and locals
I don't know but maybe $100 a gram? A large amount like that can get you 15 years or more.
In Oz, more like $100 a point or $1000 a gram.....

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John Bingham wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:13 am
jaynewcastle wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:18 am The lowlife looks about 70 years old
That was what I thought, he looks normal for his age in the passport picture but looks old and withered and fucked up now.
He's 52, not 50 as the report stated. Which is my age.

I just looked in the mirror and felt a whole lot better about myself. That meth is bad news....
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