2025-06-03
'Great bravery': Army Rangers risked their lives to board cocaine ship MV Matthew
Stage: Charge Or Pretrial
Plea: Guilty
Case-subject index
Court reports mentioning Vitaliy Lapa
This page indexes source-named court-report mentions. Legal stage and outcome are shown separately for each report.
2025-04-07
Eight MV Matthew defendants get sentencing date
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
2025-02-06
Four admit to having 2.2 tonnes of cocaine in largest ever seizure
Stage: Trial
Plea: Guilty
2025-02-04
MV Matthew accused fail in bid to have charges dismissed ahead of trial
Stage: Trial
Plea: Guilty
2025-01-27
Ukrainian man charged in relation to MV Matthew raid admits to drugs charge
Stage: Trial
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: remanded Lapa in custody until February 24