Cocaine dealer handled Qantas bags
From: By Luke McIlveen
April 07, 2006
A CONVICTED cocaine dealer linked to drug-fuelled police officers who shot dead Roni Levi has worked as a Qantas baggage handler at Sydney airport for the past four years.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal Easton Barrington James was given full security clearance by state and federal agencies and has had access to all airport areas since 2002.
It comes after revelations security cameras in the baggage-handling area at the airport were tampered with at the same time a huge cocaine syndicate was operating through the international terminal.
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His job involved sorting suitcases on the baggage carousel and loading them on to aircraft.
The revelation will come as a major embarrassment to Customs Minister Chris Ellison, who yesterday dismissed concerns about airport security as a "beat-up."
The minister confirmed The Daily Telegraph's report yesterday that security cameras in the baggage handling area had been tampered with.
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