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The extent of human trafficking in Australia is difficult to quantify. [7] However, it has been estimated that between 300 and 1000 persons are victims of trafficking a year. [8] The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) lists Australia as one of 21 trafficking destination countries in the high destination category. [9]
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 ...
Due to its profitability, many transnational crime groups have begun to focus on methamphetamine trafficking in Australia, with over 60% of high risk criminal targets on the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission National Targeting List being involved in the trade, [6] with 45% of this being outlaw motorcycle gangs, [6] who have been known ...
An Australian man has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail for leaving his wife stranded in Sudan without a passport.. Mohamed Ahmed Omer, 52, a Sudanese-born Australian citizen has ...
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 ...
Bruno Robert Trimbole (/ t r ɪ m b oʊ l i /) (19 March 1931 – 12 May 1987) was an Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure whose alleged involvement in drug trafficking in Griffith, New South Wales, resulted in a royal commission, a coroner's inquest and an international chase by the Australian government seeking his apprehension after he fled to Europe.
According to the Australian Crime Commission, there has been a noticeable increase in the involvement of Vietnamese crime groups in recent years." [ 89 ] Community impact: "Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in Australia and generally easily available.
Australian police on Tuesday charged a former childcare worker with abusing 91 girls in what officials are calling one of the worst such cases in recent history. “This is one of the most ...