On 4 December 2015, the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld a Crown appeal imposed on a 35-year-old man of NSW who concealed tobacco inside a shipping container of bamboo blinds to avoid import duty payable on the tobacco.
On 4 December 2015, the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld a Crown appeal imposed on a 35-year-old man of NSW who concealed tobacco inside a shipping container of bamboo blinds to avoid import duty payable on the tobacco.
Two Taiwanese men were charged and gaoled with trafficking a commercial quantity of a controlled drug - 92.8 kilograms of methamphetamine, concealed inside suitcases which had been imported into Australia on a flight from Taiwan to Melbourne.
A 59-year-old Queensland women was sentenced to three and a half years gaol for failing to declare her income from employment whilst in receipt of Newstart Allowance and Disability Support Pension.
Department of Defence graduate employee was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for disclosing secret organisation information online.
A 51-year-old Victorian green grocer was sentenced to eight and half years imprisonment for his role in an international drug importation, money laundering and drug trafficking syndicate.
On 29 May 2015, three commercial divers—Bradley Jolly, David Shkreli and Benjamin James Thomson were intercepted on board the commercially registered vessel Hammerhead by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) rangers.
