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<postdate>2025-03-13 15:08:59</postdate>
<headline>Ex-Test spinner MacGill acquitted of major drug supply</headline>
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<caption>Stuart MacGill has been acquitted of knowingly taking part in a $330,000 cocaine deal. (Paul Braven/AAP PHOTOS)</caption>
<p class="wire-column__preview__author"><span class="kicker-line">ByÂ <b>Luke Costin</b></span></p>
<p><strong>Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill knew he was taking part in a cocaine deal but was oblivious about the large scale of the exchange that began under his restaurant.</strong></p>
<p>That is the verdict of a Sydney District Court jury that acquitted the leg-spinner on Thursday of taking part in a large commercial drug supply in April 2021.</p>
<p>The jury heard the illicit exchange of $330,000 for a kilogram of cocaine was struck between MacGill's regular drug dealer and the former cricketer's brother-in-law Marino Sotiropoulos.</p>
<p>The cricketer teed up a meeting under his restaurant on Sydney's north shore but denied knowing the deal was to take place.</p>
<p>Prosecutors argued the deal could not have occurred without MacGill's prior involvement.</p>
<p>While the jury dismissed the Crown's claims about MacGill's knowledge of a one-kilogram deal, it found him guilty of the lesser charge of taking part in drug supply.</p>
<p>MacGill, whose 44-Test career came in the shadow of cricketing great Shane Warne, showed little emotion as the verdicts were read.</p>
<p>His sentencing hearing was adjourned for eight weeks.</p>
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