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00:09Tonight on Border Security, this Aussie boxer has returned from the Middle East.
00:15He won't take his jacket off.
00:17Is he getting ready for a fight?
00:19What's this here, sir?
00:21Everything points to a narcotic concealment.
00:24Look at this organic stuff.
00:25Down the middle there, it looks to be funny.
00:27But inside, there's a surprise.
00:29Nothing there.
00:30And a passenger is caught out.
00:32Did he actually walk in this spot?
00:34Then has to dig himself out of a big hole.
00:37Are you telling me the truth?
00:41Okay.
00:58Customs and border protection officers are charged with protecting the Australian community from importations of illegal items.
01:06such as narcotics weapons and counterfeit goods today the baggage here
01:12is that yours did you pack that baggage yourself and does it everything in it
01:15belong to you yes so you're fully aware of what's that today at Perth
01:19International Airport officer Cheryl has just spotted something unusual on the
01:24x-ray of this passengers luggage the big one I just put it on top for me what I'm
01:29going to do now just undo the lock you don't need to open the case itself so
01:34where have you started your journey today the man right in Saudi yep the man to
01:39boy just demand door door Dubai Dubai Singapore Singapore Perth so you're
01:44actually working over in Saudi area all right what do you do over there
01:47diving superintendent okay 16 years no no no so you're traveling alone today are you
01:57David yeah well you know how we work here obviously on the x-ray though there's
02:02something I want to just check out whatever you want thank you the x-ray
02:07image has alerted the officer to several bottles of pills which she quickly
02:12locates in the man's toiletries bag what do you take those for just to tell
02:18friends just help yeah this is a supplement so again yeah it's like a
02:33supplement yeah all right yes it's like a multivit or just yeah it's okay same
02:40thing yeah same thing right so you tell me if they're the same thing they're
02:43different colors here so yeah yeah yeah so that's just a different brand is that what
02:47you tell me different brand yeah you check them all you like yeah well
02:51obviously we have to go for it yeah thank you but before the pills can be
02:57analyzed further officer Cheryl finds something else in the man's bag okay
03:12what's this here at Sydney's Department of Immigration officers are speaking to a
03:16young Korean passenger who is returning to Australia on a working holiday visa
03:21now this is your second working holiday visa what did you do in your first
03:26working holiday visa to be eligible he should have worked for at least three
03:31months in a regional area during his last stay
03:43do you remember the name of the place that he went okay does he remember the name of
03:53the name of the place he doesn't know the name of the owner the
04:08passengers vague answers are making officer Rafiq suspicious of his story so
04:14he consults with his supervisor officer Laura does he have detail about what he
04:19was actually doing at the farm like no other than planting tree but surely there
04:24would be more information yeah to allow him to enter the country immigration
04:29needs to contact his former employer but the only way they can do this is with
04:35the passengers help he's got to come up with more we would need details because if
04:41you were there if you actually worked three four months you'd have some detail
04:54at Sydney's International Mail Centre hundreds of packages are x-rayed daily in an attempt to stop
05:01contraband entering the country today the image of a box declared as hair bands from India has raised
05:09officers suspicions hey Keith look at this one what's in that one um it's organic stuff down the middle there
05:18it looks a bit funny could be packaging yeah I don't know it just doesn't look like hair bands
05:22the green might be just um some packaging if it's just hair bands it should be just a
05:26light organic like that instead of a dark so I think it might be worth a look yeah have a
05:30look at that one definitely
05:32the package will be opened by Australia Post so officers can inspect the contents more closely
05:40as said we've got the hair bands it might be in the hair bands themselves could feel that I feel
05:50nothing is anything in there son he's thick actually feels we funny everything that feels funny feel that
06:01it is a bit too thick yeah that's thick isn't it
06:10checking all you like yeah thank you yeah no problem in Perth Customs and Border Protection has discovered a suspicious
06:18vial of liquid inside this passenger's luggage
06:21what's this here sir that there's uh Sustenon yeah what do you use that for what I use it for
06:28yeah what is it
06:30what is it it's a testosterone okay and do you have a permit to import this today I'm not important
06:35no I don't have a permit no
06:37okay echo one echo five Sustenon is a synthetic steroid and is used for performance and image enhancement
06:44importing steroids into Australia without a permit carries a maximum sentence of five years in jail and fines of up
06:52to a hundred and ten thousand dollars
06:55it's meant to be some kind of a vitamin yeah also I want to check on that just on opening
07:01this we've got this file is telling me it's cool system
07:05notHope for that which is testosterone what just cause you know does the
07:10the passenger has myth Cohen right now he stated he has no permit are implement out
07:14today okay
07:16yeah yeah okay leave a glass ceiling out of this point now I found that item and I
07:20need to caution you yeah okay still listen carefully yeah so you do not
07:23have to say I'll do anything unless you wish to do so but anything you do say I'll
07:27do baby using evidence do you understand yep can you tell me what you
07:31understand by that I understand what you just said I want you to repeat
07:34to me what you understand what you just said okay so you clear that if you don't
07:38want to say anything you don't have to do so roger that okay
07:51can you remember anything that he went there the name of anything that
07:55of that place i cannot remember at sydney airport immigration are finding it hard to believe this
08:02korean student story that he previously worked on a farm this would qualify him for a second working
08:10holiday visa i think he's a bit vague i think anyone who had actually worked and lived in an
08:16area for three months would know some more information so if he has done the right thing
08:20then i'll be happy to let him into australia if he hasn't then they're going to be consequences
08:25now who filled in your second walking visa application form did you fill it in yourself
08:38now how far was that farm from from sydney
08:43the passenger has provided an abn number on his visa application
08:51and immigration have linked it to a business in central queensland i'll just try i guess to
08:57google map and see how far it is oh 19 hours 19 20 hours in the south west of queensland
09:05so he said he caught a bus from sydney and in four hours he was at the farm he was
09:10at the farm
09:14the employer's details that he has given in his application the area is not four hours away from
09:21sydney so is it possible that the information he has provided in his application is not correct
09:34at the mail center in sydney customs and border protection officers have opened a box of hair
09:40bands from india the x-rays showed unidentifiable organic material and officers think they may have
09:48found something concealed in the packaging it actually feels a bit funny do you reckon that
09:54feels funny feel that it's too thick yeah that's thick isn't it it's a recipe like that
10:03so this one here is thin you can feel it in there there's hardly anything there
10:09and then this one there's definitely something in there
10:13there you can see there it's locked in it it seems 10 of the 20 packets have thicker cardboard
10:20labeling officers decide to x-ray them individually to compare the two
10:30yeah look at this keith there's only you've got three through
10:33yes definitely two's showing up there this one here's lucky the thin one doesn't have anything
10:36yeah it's the same thing the x-ray hasn't picked it up but it's definitely picked something up in
10:40mostly packages so just put some uh change the contrast definitely see there's powder there
10:44and there yeah still nothing in there very definitely yeah it's not consistent isn't it
10:49we might have a hit yeah it could be but when officers open one of the suspicious packages
10:55they're surprised by what they find
11:04due to its remoteness australia has avoided many of the pests and diseases that have devastated some
11:12of the world's agricultural industries and when passengers arrive at the border it is very clear
11:19that all food and plant material needs to be declared we've got a mother and son thai nationals
11:25they haven't cleared anything on their car but the first bag clearly shows they're carrying some
11:29organic matter in there so let's see what they've got to say for themselves so i need to look inside
11:34your bags here okay have you traveled to australia before this is third time third time okay when you
11:40came last time did you bring food with you yes so this time when you brought food with you
11:45why did you not mark that on your card you said you've been here three times before oh yeah second
11:50time
11:51happened yeah no problem it's okay they have checked me too yeah they checked you too so that
11:55you must have declared it last time right okay so if you declared it last time why did you not
11:59declare
12:00it today you see it says here question number six any first okay any food sean's concerned that she
12:07didn't learn from the last time she entered the country and he's surprised by the large amount of
12:13undeclared food what's inside here protein soybean noodles biscuits fish seafood candies a few concerns
12:27we found so far white fungus it's non-commercial mushrooms are very hard to bring in as we can see
12:32from the mushrooms that we have here you can't really identify them as permissible all this undeclared food
12:40some of which is prohibited means the passenger could be facing a 220 fine
12:53so you do not have to say or do anything unless you wish to do so but anything you do
12:58say or do
12:58may be using evidence customs and border protection has stopped a man carrying a vial of testosterone in
13:05his luggage as well as various pills i'm the supervisor of this examination today what's occurred
13:13is you've just been given your rights okay what we're going to do is move the examination into the
13:18interview room and it'll be continued under tape okay when you get in there um i'll allow you to
13:26make a call to your wife okay is that okay yep in the interview room the man tells the officers
13:31that
13:32he is also an amateur boxer and now they have found some evidence to suggest there may be more
13:38steroids in the man's luggage i found a paper that is on a obviously a bulking up as a boxer
13:45yeah so he's on a plan and i'll get you a list of the names of them because it may
13:50be that they're
13:51these because he's taking x of something so we need to establish if they are what they say they are
13:57okay to check if they are a type of steroid the pills are tested using a street lab machine the
14:04street lab machine is a machine that analyzes potential narcotics it can be a liquid a powder
14:10or a tablet so in this case we're going to put the tablets into the machine and determine whether
14:14they're narcotic or not the analysis comes back negative for the man's pills i noticed on one of the
14:22the bottles it's actually for to help your liver which would suggest that if the gentleman is
14:27taking steroids then there are associated health risks with that and therefore you'd need some
14:32supplements to get them back into your body to get your body back to normal although the pills check
14:38out back in the interview room the search is far from over he's boiling and he won't take his jacket
14:45off
14:45so he won't take his jacket off um because i'm convinced there's something in the jacket
14:58this gets seaweed seaweed biosecurity officer sean is debating whether this passenger arriving from
15:07thailand should receive a fine for not declaring a bag full of food so you can take these ones the
15:15mushrooms the lilies will have to stay with us john she's received a warning in the past and now sean
15:25and his supervisor john will decide whether a fine will get through to this repeat offender lady has
15:32said she's been here three times before yep she's come here before without declaring goods um so she's
15:38done the same thing again okay i'm not so good in english too okay but we need you to tell
15:46us that
15:46you've got the food you haven't told us today so you've you've made a false declaration okay and because
15:53of that you will actually be fined okay so there is a fine of 110 that you will need to
16:01pay
16:03if you have no money with you we can actually do what's a deferred payment we can give you 30
16:07days
16:07to pay oh okay okay biosecurity only hopes this time she will learn her lesson we're dealing with
16:14the protection of our country pests and disease and how they how things start and and the risk
16:19associated with those starting factors is well there may be small risks but the point is is a risk but
16:26i
16:26hope that she knows next time she's carrying food and she just declares her food and gives us the
16:30opportunity to look at what she's got release what we can and take what's not permissible
16:45an x-ray of these hair bands from india is showing that there is something concealed in the cardboard of
16:52half of the packets but when officers open them up they are empty nothing there no there's nothing
16:59there ah yeah obviously there's there's a raised section there so it looks like they're put inside
17:08the cardboard yes yeah yeah so we'll just have to cut it up and have a look take that off
17:22beautiful coming from india judging by the appearance i'm guessing that it's heroin
17:28a narcotics test kit will be used to identify the substance
17:39crack the first one then when i crack the second vial open hopefully it'll turn green
17:47there you go good strong reading for heroin when you get a fine like this it um makes it feel
17:53as
17:53they're doing something for the community keeping drugs off the streets the contents of the box will
17:58now be handed over to the australian federal police for further investigation
18:15this korean student's story is not adding up for immigration i can see there is a bit of
18:22discrepancy between what what's in the application and what he's telling us and
18:26i obviously need to get more information at this stage and i need to tell him that you know unless
18:30we
18:30are satisfied with the information that he's providing he's risking his immigration clearance
18:36today so officer rafiq is determined to find out the truth is it possible that the information
18:42he has provided in his application is not correct yeah no is it correct so there must be something
18:49that he's not telling me or there must be something not true in his application
18:54well it's time for him to tell me the truth did he actually work in this farm or this is
19:00somebody
19:01has provided his this abn number and he has put it in his application
19:07mr ham yeah yeah tell me the truth now
19:20mr ham yeah yeah you're telling me the truth
19:25no
19:25yeah
19:36in perth customs and border protection has already found a bile of testosterone in the bags
19:44of an australian who has just returned from working in saudi arabia we've also uncovered some documentary
19:51indicator that he may have additional steroids as part of his program that he's on so we're continuing
19:58to look for those at the moment and in a private interview room officers have made a much bigger
20:04discovery at the moment i found 16 vials of cestinol which is testosterone and one mil vials
20:16he is facing a prosecution for the importation of a banned substance but before officers go any further
20:23they decide to conduct a frisk search to make sure he is not carrying anything on his body
20:29i requested a couple of times if he felt hot to take his jacket off he seemed very reluctant to
20:34do so
20:35so i did have concerns that he may be concealing something on his body so just prior to finishing off
20:40um we carried out a frisk search um and there's no find with the frisk search negative and the record
20:47of interview complete the matter will be referred to the customs and border protection investigations
20:53team so we've actually seized the items from the gentleman and he's now been released
20:57um obviously what we'll be doing is putting together a brief and a decision will later be made
21:02as to whether we go to prosecution but at least we've had a positive outcome today and
21:06uh we've prevented uh steroids from crossing the border
21:21mr ham yeah yeah you're telling me the truth no at sydney immigration officers may have just
21:29discovered the truth about this korean student's story no i did not work there where did you work
21:39during your first working holiday visa which are the places that you worked
21:42with this admission immigration has only one option i'm now going to give you a notice of
21:53intention to consider cancellation of your visa the passenger is given an opportunity to respond
21:59to the notice of intention to cancel his visa
22:05well if i get the cancellation of visa i'll be very loose face before my family and my friends
22:12and i don't think i'll be able to talk to that because i'm too shameful i'm not sure what i
22:19can do at
22:19this stage unfortunately this plea will not turn things around for the passenger today my assessment is i
22:26considered that there are grounds for cancelling his visa because he provided false information on his
22:32application and i have therefore decided to cancel your visa the information he provided in his
22:39application was incorrect he didn't really give me any any reason why his visa should not be cancelled
22:44so at the end we cancelled his visa
22:59this is a mystery no man can solve what's this bag in the back here
23:05i've got no explanation it's up to barney to sniff out her lies no drugs on you no but will
23:12he smell
23:13the biggest lie of all good boy new dog patrol sunday on seven