37-year-old Harmeet Singh has been jailed for 14 months for a crime he committed in October 2013.
Harmeet was intercepted by police while he was driving his Maxi-Taxi, and was found carrying a suitcase stuffed with $500,000.
Though, the source of the money is still not clear, but police suspected it to be a money-laundering operation and he was taking orders from an associate in India.
He had collected the money from a US citizen known as Mendoza, who had travelled to Melbourne for the operation.
He pleaded not guilty pleaded not guilty to a charge of dealing with the proceeds of crime in an amount greater than $100,000.
He was found guilty by a County Court jury, following two trials, but today continued to protest his innocence even after being jailed, reported.
“Can I say something,” he pleaded with Judge Meryl Sexton.
“I didn’t do anything.”
The outburst came after Singh vomited in the dock, forcing his sentence to be temporarily halted.
But the judge completely dismissed the idea that Harmeet was unaware of what he was carrying on the day of his arrest. The judge found him to be an integral part of the money laundering operation.
Harmeet threw up in the court when the judge pronounced the judgment to send him to jail for 14 months.
