THE wife of Mark Standen's alleged
co-conspirator in a plan to import pseudoephedrine has told the court
she believed a shipment of rice would contain drugs.
Mr
Standen, a former assistant director of the NSW Crime Commission, has
been charged with conspiring with the food wholesaler Bill Jalalaty and
the former informant James Kinch to import the drug precursor and to
pervert the course of justice. He is also accused of taking part in the
supply of 300 kilograms of pseudoephedrine.
Yesterday,
Dianne Jalalaty told the Supreme Court her husband had put $580,000
into an investment scheme, but the money was lost. The money was part of
$1 million lent to him in early 2006 by a man she knew as B52, and
around July 2007 her husband told her they had to repay the money.
''He
said that the debt had to be repaid and that the way that the debt was
going to be repaid was sort of something in one of the shipments of rice
… He told me that in one of the shipments of rice there was going to
be something else in the rice,'' Mrs Jalalaty said.
''Did you understand that something to be drugs of some kind?'' asked the Crown Prosecutor, Tim Game, SC.
''Yes,'' she replied.
''Was it a source of discord with your husband?''
''Yes.''
She
said it was also a matter of discord with her husband that he asked her
frequently to make payments to Mr Standen from the $1 million.
She said she was not aware of any other amounts of money received by her husband.
Mr
Standen told police after his arrest he did not know anything about any
illegal substances in the rice and was in a legitimate business
relationship with Mr Jalalaty.
The trial continues.
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