Vic: Car believed to be gangland lawyer's burns

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2008
Vic: Car believed to be gangland lawyer's burns

MELBOURNE, April 17 AAP - A luxury car reportedly owned by prominent Melbourne gangland
lawyer Nicola Gobbo has been destroyed in a suspicious fire.

Firefighters were called to a hotel on the corner of York and Clarendon streets in
South Melbourne where a BMW convertible was on fire shortly after 9pm (AEST) yesterday.

Metropolitan Fire Brigade spokeswoman Heather Stockton said the owner of the car was
not at the scene of the fire.

"Police attended because the circumstances were considered suspicious and an amount
of cash was found and police needed to be advised," she said.

Detectives from the South Melbourne criminal investigation unit were investigating
how the fire was started including whether the car was firebombed.

Ms Gobbo's underworld clients include crime boss Tony Mokbel and gangland killers Carl
Williams and Nicholas Ibrahim, crime boss Lewis Moran and Mokbel's wife Danielle McGuire.

Victoria Police spokesman Senior Constable David Fitzgerald confirmed the fire but
not who owned the car.

However, News Ltd said in an online report it was owned by Ms Gobbo.

She could not be immediately contacted for comment.

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