Gangland kingpin Tony Mokbel's legal fight to overturn all of his convictions is far from over after three judges handed down a split decision on his appeal.

The 60-year-old walked into the Victorian Court of Appeal on Friday morning, hopeful that his two drug trafficking and one drug importation convictions would be quashed.

But Justices Stephen McLeish, Maree Kennedy and Stephen Kaye instead delivered different rulings on each of the charges - known under the police operation names Quills, Orbital and Magnum.

The judges ordered Mokbel's conviction on the Quills drug trafficking charge be quashed, while his Orbital drug importation conviction was set aside and a retrial ordered.

"Although the alleged offending was serious and evil, the way the evidence was obtained meant that placing

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