Lawyer X: Victoria's senior police likely knew of informer, inquiry told

Assistant commissioner Neil Paterson says Nicola Gobbo was registered to bring down ‘Mokbel family’ members

Victoria’s most senior police officers should have known – and most likely did know – that a criminal barrister was turning on her clients as an informer, an inquiry has heard.

Nicola Gobbo was first registered as an informant known as Lawyer X in the mid-1990s when she was an aspiring solicitor, again as a barrister in 1999, again between 2005 and 2009, and unofficially until 2010.

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