“To cut a bracelet off your ankle which has been imposed by the court shows a very serious intent to flee,” Detective Superintendent Robert Critchlow said last year.
Baluch’s escape,just four days after he was granted bail,came to a spectacular end when police captured him in the back of a truck travelling to Queensland after two weeks on the run.
Attenti informed police “a few minutes” after the 33-year-old removed his monitoring device,the company’s business development manager Philipp Schluter told the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Asked by a lawyer if Baluch’s parents were contacted prior to police being called,Schluter agreed the company had attempted to call Baluch when it was notified of the tampering,but disputed that his parents were called before police.
Also raised in a Supreme Court bail application on Wednesday was the case of Xu Lin.
Lin is accused of importing 159 kilograms of methamphetamine and 340 kilograms of the drug precursor ephedrine into Australia concealed in red bar stools and small packets of soup mix.