Jailed drug trafficker and underworld figure Tony Mokbel has been transferred to hospital in Victoria for unknown reasons.
Corrections Victoria said a prisoner was taken to hospital last night by non-urgent ambulance.
Police did not reveal why Mokbel was taken ill or how serious his condition was.
"Corrections Victoria does not comment on individual prisoners or their placements," a spokesperson said.
Mokbel is serving a 30-year sentence in Barwon Prison for drug trafficking offences.
In 2020, his conviction for importing drugs was quashed as a result of the Lawyer X scandal, however he remains in prison for other drug offence convictions.
In 2019, Mokbel was stabbed by two inmates at the maximum-security prison, suffering critical injuries.
Mokbel is one of Victoria's most-notorious gangland figures.
He famously skipped bail in 2006 while on trial for cocaine importation, and hid in Bonnie Doon in Central Victoria before being driven to Western Australia, where he set sail for Europe on a yacht, hidden in a secret compartment with its own toilet.
Even while in hiding in Greece, Mokbel continued to run his drug syndicate, organising the trafficking of $4 million worth of speed.
Despite being disguised in a wig, Mokbel was arrested by Greek police in a cafe in a seaside suburb of Athens in June 2007, 15 months after fleeing Melbourne.
In 2012, he was sentenced to 30 years' jail with a minimum of 22 years.
