Officials broke rules on Zygier as case was flicked to ASIO

By David Wroe, Tom Allard
March 7 2013 - 3:00am

Two of Australia's highest ranking foreign affairs officials knew of the jailing of Melbourne man Ben Zygier - dubbed ''Prisoner X'' - in Israel but left his consular care in the hands of spy agency ASIO in clear breach of the department's own rules.

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