The facts
6 Although the offences are of a disparate nature, they were linked and were all part of a chain of criminality that began with the armed robbery. That offence was committed on 28 February 2006. On that day the applicant, in company with another man, and driving a vehicle bearing stolen number plates, accosted two Chubb security officers, Abdul Jodeh and Steve Adams, who were in the process of transferring bags containing a large sum of cash from a business at Mascot in an armoured vehicle. After Adams had placed the bags in the van and secured the door, the applicant pointed a black revolver at his chest. He demanded that the men hand him the bags. The applicant handed the security officers two bags, into which they placed satchels containing the money. The applicant took the bags and drove off, with the other man as passenger.
7 The proceeds of the robbery was the sum of almost $2,000,000.
8 Five days later, on 5 March 2006, the applicant purchased a Lexus motor vehicle for which he paid $27,500 in cash. This constitutes one of the additional offences on the Form 1.
9 On the same day he purchased a BMW motor vehicle, for the sum of $92,490 for which he paid by way of a trade-in, together with $87,750 in cash. This constitutes the offence the subject of the second count.
10 On 21 April 2006, in company with two relatives, he purchased at auction another BMW, bidding $79,979.70. He tendered this sum in cash, but was presented with an Austrac currency declaration, requiring disclosure of the source of the cash. The applicant and his relatives left, and purchased eight separate bank cheques, seven in the sum of $9,900 and one in the sum of $2,700. The purchase of the vehicle was the second offence on the Form 1 taken into account; the purchase of the bank cheques was an attempt to launder the stolen money and avoid the requirements of the Financial Transactions Reports Act, and constitutes the third offence on the indictment.