A lawyer's offer to withdraw $2000 from her bank account to make-up a shortfall in the $12,000 cost of buying "three ounces" of methamphetamine allegedly made her complicit in supplying 55 grams of the drug.
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This was highlighted by the Crown in the opening address for Alina Yousif's District Court trial in Albury on Monday afternoon.
Prosecutor Paul Kerr told the jury of seven women and five men that surveillance devices showed Yousif counting out money in readiness for another gang member to travel to Melbourne the buy the methamphetamine in late 2017.
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The drug was hidden in a modified, empty nine-kilogram gas cylinder that police - acting on information - uncovered as soon as he crossed back into NSW.
Yousif, 28, formally entered not guilty pleas to participating in a criminal group, using a false document to obtain a licence and taking part in the supply of methamphetamine.
Mr Kerr said Yousif obtained a fake Indian consulate letter "on or about November 11, 2017" in order for another group member to obtain a NSW motorcycle rider's licence.
He said that when the head of the criminal group, Yousif's partner, found out the bid to get a licence at Roads and Maritime Services in Albury using a fake Indian licence had failed, he rang a Sydney forgery contact and said: "Mate, can knock up a letter from the Indian Consular General to say that he's ridgy-didge?"
Mr Kerr said Yousif got that letter so the man, a P-plater, could ride a larger-capacity machine in the Bandidos bikie gang's annual run.
Witnesses will begin giving evidence on Tuesday, with the trial expected to be over by the end of the week.
"It's not a very complicated trial," Mr Kerr said.
