time and is very confident that his conduct was not criminal. After being released from prison Faruk Orman called Victoria Police a "powerful, dangerous organisation" and argued for accountability and transparency but stated in an interview with ABC News that he "wouldn't wish jail upon them. I wouldn't wish for them to experience what I've been through, at their hands". After having his conviction overturned Zlate Cvetanovski described the actions of Gobbo and Victoria Police as "shocking, scandalous and unprecedented". Attorney Ruth Parker for Cvetanovski and Orman noted the damage done to the legal profession and called the actions of Gobbo and Victoria Police "the biggest criminal police-corruption conspiracy in the history of the Western world" and "typical corruption... you only see in movies". A lawyer for two of Gobbo's clients called the Royal Commission "the most difficult proceeding he’s been a part of" due to the control that Victoria Police had over choosing what information was made available and what was covered by PII. Barrister Con Heliotis who worked with Gobbo on the defending Mokbel on the cocaine importation charge which was later quashed called Gobbo's actions "mind blowing" and wondered why she would do something that "everybody had to know is very wrong". Media When the TV show Desperate Housewives first premiered in Australia in 2004, Gobbo was one of the Australian women from whom The Age sought a reaction. Gobbo's involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings has been dramatised in the Nine Network Australian television series Informer 3838, produced by Screentime, which premiered on 20 April 2020. Journalist Adam Shand also hosted a six-part Australian crime podcast series in February–March 2020 about Gobbo called Understate: Lawyer X. The 9 episodes of season two of the ABC investigative podcast Trace covers the actions of Gobbo and includes interviews with her. Personal life Gobbo is the cousin of a Melbourne barrister, Jeremy Gobbo . She is also the niece of Sir James Gobbo, a former Governor of Victoria and a former Supreme Court judge. Gobbo's partner is Richard Barkho; the couple have two children. , Barkho was serving a five-year custodial sentence for drug trafficking. See also AB v CD (Australia) Informer 3838 References Further reading External links Victorian Government Inquiries and Royal Commissions web site Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants web site 1972 births Lawyers from Melbourne Living people Australian barristers Australian women lawyers 21st-century