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Tara Cosoleto

Fugitive will be free within months after evading trial

Omer Tok obtained a passport under a fake name and fled to Turkey. (HANDOUT/VICTORIA POLICE)

A Victorian man who fled the country on a fake passport to evade his cocaine importation trial will be released from custody within months.

Omer Tok, 47, was on Tuesday sentenced in the County Court to three years' jail for dishonestly obtaining an Australian travel document in May 2018. 

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