CORBY LAWYER THREATENS TO TELL ALL

One of Schapelle Corby's former lawyers says he will reveal "the
truth" about her drug smuggling conviction unless she backs off
criticising his reputation.

Vasu Rasiah says he is willing to reveal damaging details about
Corby's defence, and her plea of innocence.

"If they push us to a corner then we have no option but to reveal
all the truth, and everything that took place, we will. And that
will be very detrimental to her," Rasiah told ABC's 7.30 Report.

Mr Rasiah, among others, is blamed for Corby's conviction in her
book, My Story, which has sold more than 17,000 copies since its
release last month.

He was a member of Corby's Indonesian legal team after her arrest in
Bali in 2004 for smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis inside a bodyboard bag.

Corby, 29, is serving a 20-year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan Prison.

Mr Rasiah, who is described in the book as a money hungry bully,
said his team was happy to leave the case, saying "everything was
manipulated".

He said it was the Corby family that was focused on money.

Mr Rasiah also said the family knocked back an offer from the
Australian Federal Police to DNA test the cannabis, to track its
origin, when they learned the results would be passed on to Indonesian police.

Corby's mother Rosleigh Rose has denied such an offer was made.

But Mr Rasiah said: "We even got a couple of samples from Bali
police for this testing".

It would be a positive for the defence if the cannabis was found to
come from somewhere other than Corby's home state of Queensland, he said.

"And they came and said 'No, (Corby's sister) Mercedes feels, please
don't push this angle because it is detrimental to the case'," Mr Rasiah said.

Quoting sources close the family, the ABC also reported it had new
information about Corby's movements before she entered Brisbane
airport on October 8, 2004, the day she left Australia for Bali.

She met an Adelaide man, in the pre-dawn darkness, on her way to
Brisbane's international airport that day, causing her to almost
miss her 6am flight, the report said.

Mr Rasiah, who named Mercedes Corby as the key organiser of
Schapelle's defence, said he would have more to say about the case
if the attacks on his reputation didn't stop.

"If they push us too hard, we will tell the whole world what exactly
took place and how it all went about," Mr Rasiah said.