Tag: Australian Border Force

Consignment with an estimated street value of $140-million detected in shipping container of ceramic tiles addressed to a Melbourne business.

Organised crime cops in the Northern Territory swoop on 43-year-old after they intercepted a suspicious parcel coming from China.

Surveillance aircraft and vessels are spotting, tagging and removing deadly discarded fishing nets in the ocean off northern Australia.

Man aged 65 is the second person to be sentenced for attempting to import 1,2 tonnes of ephedrine into Australia.

Two crew members of yacht sailing from the Pacific to NSW sentenced to between seven and 16 years for drug trafficking.

Some victims believed they had been granted legal entry to Australia, while others paid over $15,000 for supposed visas that never arrived.

As attempts to curb illegal fishing continue, the Border Force says it has intercepted 19 Indonesian vessels and destroyed three of them.

One vessel destroyed and fishing catch and equipment confiscated as Border Force cutter intercepts Indonesians operating illegally.

Seventeen-year-old Perth girl is among those arrested for trafficking. Police say the heroin has an estimated street value of $55-million.

Consignment worth $80.7-million was found hidden in thousands of canola oil bottles sent from Mexico to Melbourne.

Operator of nine Sichuan cuisine restaurants fined $131,000 and ordered to pay $800,000 in wages owed to its foreign workers.

Sixty-three kilograms of methamphetamine found hidden in wooden pallets containing mop buckets from Malaysia.

Targeting of illicit tobacco rings continues, with taskforce hitting two organised crime syndicates operating in WA and Victoria.

Charter flights being used to deport foreigners convicted of criminal acts in Australia. Thirty-one deportations occurred in February.

Taskforce disrupts illicit tobacco-growing and destroys crops with a potential excise value of more than $84-million.

Chinese national living in Perth forged documents to convince unsuspecting clients they had been granted an Australian entry visa.

Border Force is cancelling visas and removing foreign nationals from the country for serious breaches of Covid-19 regulations.

Pair who attempted to smuggle 9.5 -million cigarettes into the country are sentenced to almost five years in prison.

Liquid ecstasy valued at almost $700,000 found by Border Force hidden in an air cargo consignment that arrived in Sydney.

Both men are founding members of the Adelaide-based Descendants gang and have criminal records. Gang allegedly engages in drug-related crimes.

Latest seizure of drugs worth an estimated $135-million and arrest of four people highlights the scale of the problem.

Large consignment of meth sent from Iran was concealed beneath fake grass, which was part of the tunnel set-up.

Second person arrested this month by ABF for attempting to illegally import child sex dolls into the country.

Items were discovered when officers searched a package sent from China which was labelled as containing a display shelf.

Police say only a well-resourced organised crime syndicate would have been able to attempt a smuggling operation on this scale.