Case Reports

In a landmark case, on 23 August 2016, Aubrey James Morris and Marcus Patrick Rawlinson were each convicted and fined $40,000 after pleading guilty in the Townsville District Court to one count each of operating a detained vessel.

Recently serving four years in prison for drug importation, repeat offender 42-year-old Malachy Okoli of Padstow New South Wales was sentenced to 14 years and 6 months imprisonment with a non-parole period of 9 years and 6 months imprisonment for engaging in an ongoing enterprise of importing border controlled drugs into Australia.

The Victorian Court of Appeal sentenced medical practitioner Hung Dien Phan of Mordialloc, Victoria to an increased term of imprisonment from three to four years for submitting fraudulent claims for services that were never provided to patients.

On 7 June 2016, Raymond Wilkinson of Western Australia pleaded guilty to making false statements with the intention of dishonestly obtaining a gain from the Commonwealth, and attempting to obtain a financial advantage by deception.

On 4 July 2016, Manase was found guilty of one count of intentionally giving false or misleading evidence before the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.

Unprecedented collaboration between Chinese officials and the Australian Federal Police has led to the successful prosecution of three Melbourne-based men, Shi Hao Chen, Jie Lin and Jian Wang.

New South Wales man, 62 year old Paul Herman DE LEEUW was sentenced to three years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 1 year and 9 months for accessing and possessing child pornography.

The past owner and operator of Adelaide retail business, Budget Aquariums, has been sentenced in the District Court of South Australia for his part in a joint enterprise to import live fish from Singapore. Thirty-five year old man Huy Truong was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months’ imprisonment.

Two Taiwanese men, 25-year-old Ming Hsuan Ou and 30-year-old Chun Lan, were charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of a controlled drug, being 92.8 kilograms of methylamphetamine, concealed inside suitcases which had been imported into Australia on a flight from Taiwan to Melbourne on 24 May 2014.  Co-offenders Li Ping Chen and Shu Yi Lin were also charged with participation in thi

Victorian green grocer, 51-year-old Minh Phat Truong was sentenced on 15 March 2016 in the Victorian County Court to eight and half years imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 6 years for serious money laundering offences.

A 62-year-old civil engineer of Mount Druitt in New South Wales, Ezzat Zaky was sentenced to five years imprisonment, to be released after serving two years and 6 months, for intentionally misrepresenting his circumstances to Centrelink by not disclosing the correct amount of his income from employment over a period spanning almost 10 years and receiving benefits simultaneously in the name Ezza

A jury found Barbara Moody of Sandgate Queensland guilty of failing to declare her income from employment whilst in receipt of Newstart Allowance and Disability Support Pension.   Moody, a 59-year-old single woman was overpaid $74,000.03 whilst receiving payments over a period of 3 years and 5 months as she had no eligibility to benefits during the entire period.