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Western Australia: Drug trafficking (heroin) August 2000: December 2012: Sentenced to 31 years. Transferred to Bandyup Women's Prison in Australia in late 2007. [40] Robert Halliwell: Sydney: Drug trafficking (heroin) August 2000: Arrested with Deane-Johns whilst attempting to post heroin to Australia.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Australia's prime minister, John Howard, said the Australian government would oppose any death sentences imposed. [ 27 ] On 6 December 2005, Australian lawyers Robert Richter QC and Brian Walters QC called for the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to extradite the nine to Australia on heroin conspiracy-related charges. [ 28 ]
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.