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The research notes that cases of unreported labour trafficking exist in an environment of broader unlawful conduct perpetrated against migrant workers in Australia. As such, it is important for the anti-trafficking response to consider not only the most extreme instances in isolation, but also the broader environment that is arguably the ...
Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: 15 December 2024: Sentenced to life imprisonment on 14 February 2006. [17] Myuran Sukumaran: Auburn, New South Wales: Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: Executed: Sentenced to death on 14 February 2006. Executed by firing squad on 29 April 2015. [17] Renae Lawrence: Newcastle, New South Wales: Drug ...
Maritime drug smuggling into Australia refers to the smuggling of illicit drugs into Australia by sea. While much contemporary Australian media coverage has focused on smaller, more personalised smuggling cases such as the Bali Nine, maritime drug smuggling often allows criminal groups to move illicit drugs and substances into Australia at a much greater scale.
Mohamed Ahmed Omer, 52, a Sudanese-born Australian citizen has been found guilty of “exit trafficking” in a first such case in Victoria. Exit trafficking is a form of human trafficking where ...
SYDNEY/JAKARTA (Reuters) -Australian police said on Tuesday a 43-year-old man had been charged with allegedly trafficking a teenager from Indonesia for sex work, while a woman was arrested in ...
Ghale, of Australian origin, was killed when police stormed his home. [93] Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty said Ghale was "directly linked" to the Bali Nine. [94] Six men aged between 19 and 25 were arrested and released on bail in Brisbane on drug trafficking charges believed to be associated with the Bali Nine.
His hanging was the first execution of an Australian citizen in Southeast Asia since 1993, when Michael McAuliffe was hanged in Malaysia for drug trafficking. Nine years earlier, Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers had been sent to the Malaysian state gallows for their part in a drug smuggling case.
Antonios Sajih Mokbel (Arabic: طوني مقبل; born 11 August 1965) is an Australian criminal who has been convicted of a number of offences, most prominently commercial drug trafficking. [2] He has spent most of his life in Melbourne, Australia. [3] Operation Purana alleged that he is the mastermind behind the Melbourne amphetamine trade.