A glamorous bikini model has had a string of drug trafficking charges dropped after she struck a deal with prosecutors to give evidence against her co-accused.
Gold Coast Instagram model and swimwear designer Raquel Yasmine Petit, 25, was accused of being part of an alleged international steroid importation syndicate while she was living in Melbourne in 2015 and 2016.
She was facing 47 charges including trafficking a commercial quantity of steroids and dealing with $46,920 suspected of being proceeds of crime.
The drugs charges were withdrawn in Victoria's County Court this week after Petit agreed to become a police informant, News Corp reported.
Petit pleaded guilty to five lesser charges: using a false document and four counts of producing a false document to a reporting entity.
Petit was placed on a five-year good behaviour bond on the provision she continue to assist the prosecution.
But Judge Meredith refused to drop the conviction against Petit and told her she would have been jailed for 18 months if it not for her guilty pleas and willingness to become a police informant.
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