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Former Melbourne taxi driver Jack Thomas will be retried on terror charges after an appeal by his lawyers was dismissed on Monday.

The man who once styled himself Jihad Jack will be retried on charges of accepting money from terrorist organisation al-Qaeda and possessing a false Australian passport following a ruling by the Victorian Court of Appeal.

Thomas, 35, was cleared of terror charges in 2006 but the court directed he be retried on the same two counts following statements he made during an interview aired earlier that year on the ABC’s Four Corners program.

The Court of Appeal agreed statements Thomas made in the interview could support a conviction on both counts.

Thomas’ lawyers challenged the retrial order arguing the crown would have known about the interview during the first trial and it did not therefore offer any fresh evidence.

They said ASIO knew puma shoes sale of Thomas’ contact with the ABC and should have inferred he was likely to talk about his overseas activities that were the basis for the charges.

His legal team argued ASIO should have passed that information about the interview to the Australian Federal Police so it could investigate the matter with the ABC.

His Four Corners interview was aired on February 27, 2006, the day after he was found guilty.

They also argued everything ASIO knew about Thomas should be treated as also being known by puma sneakers the AFP and Director of Public Prosecutions, given it was an agency of the Commonwealth government.

However, justices Chris Maxwell, Peter Buchanan and Frank Vincent on Monday rejected these arguments, saying ASIO was not authorised by law to communicate to police information it may have had about Thomas’ contact with the ABC journalist.

Thomas was the first man convicted puma future cat under Australia’s new terror laws when he was sentenced in March 2006 to a maximum five years, with a minimum of two, for receiving funds from terror group al-Qaeda and holding a false passport.

But Court of Appeal justices Maxwell, Buchanan and Vincent quashed the convictions in August 2006, ruling Thomas’s interview puma sale with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in Pakistan in 2003 – the key prosecution evidence – was inadmissible.