Man who traded fake gold bars for e-bike ordered to repay $7.5k

A man traded three fake gold bars for an electric mountain bike valued at $7,500 in Batemans Bay. His lawyer told the court he had "significant debts to drug dealers" at the time of the offending.

File photo. (Supplied: Perth Mint)David Robert Meade has been given two years' good behaviour for trading fake gold bullion for an electric mountain bike.