Tony Mokbel has been delivered a mixed bag of results in his appeal against serious drug convictions despite his claims the cases against him were hopelessly tainted by the Lawyer X scandal.

The man known as Australia’s underworld drug kingpin was handed a 30-year prison sentence in 2012 , with a non-parole period of 22 years, for pleading guilty to masterminding an elaborate drug syndicate.

Court of Appeal justices Stephen McLeish, Maree Kennedy and Stephen Kaye found one of Mokbel’s three major drug convictions, known as Quills, could not stand and acquitted Mobkel.

He will face a retrial for another, known as Orbital, and his appeal was dismissed against the case known as Magnum.

Quills and Magnum relate to convictions for trafficking in large commercial quantities of drugs; Orbit

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