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00:09Tonight on Border Security, officers are stunned when a man offers them cash to enter the country.
00:17I've never seen anyone offer a bribe here before.
00:19And it may prove that he has something to hide.
00:21I'm thinking about detaining you to send you to the hospital.
00:25Someone has a sinister plan for these cuddly characters.
00:30It does worry me that it could be something other than stopping quite possibly narcotics.
00:34It would be embarrassing to go home and tell everybody else to kick me out.
00:38And a band's dream of a national tour could be shattered.
00:42It's really going to ruin my day.
01:01Flights from New Zealand are usually considered low risk for any illegal activities.
01:07But Customs and Border Protection officers have pulled aside this passenger after he attempted to bribe an officer.
01:14First up, before any examination has even started, the guy has asked if he was to give the officer $100
01:22cash here and now, would he let them out the door?
01:25Officer David confronts the passenger.
01:28Do you understand?
01:30The first thing you did right off the bat was offer this guy a bribe to let you out of
01:33here?
01:33Yeah.
01:36And do you understand that that may cause us to start thinking that you might be concealing something from Customs?
01:44Excuse me?
01:46I think you understood my question.
01:48You figured it would be a pretty smart thing to do to offer this guy a bribe to let you
01:51out the door fast.
01:53Yeah, because I wasn't sure when I'm going to get this next flight.
01:56I mean, can we do something to organise that flight or verify that it's still going today?
02:04What we do is we risk assess passengers to see if they propose any risk to the Australian border.
02:10And when that process is complete, you leave and then you deal with your flights yourself.
02:14And we don't delay you any longer than we need to.
02:17But the process of determining if you are any kind of a risk or not takes as long as it
02:23takes, okay?
02:27Officers are taking the situation very seriously.
02:31So he's offered him a bribe fair and square.
02:34It immediately creates some suspicion about what this fella's all about.
02:40I've never seen anyone offer a bribe here before.
02:49An American musician has arrived on an entertainment visa that will allow him to tour and perform in Australia.
02:57But immigration is concerned by his criminal past that he failed to declare when he first applied for the visa.
03:04Firstly, did you declare the criminal convictions in your application form?
03:08I didn't actually fill out my visa application form.
03:12It was filled out by tour manager.
03:15Marcus, did you actually sign the form?
03:17The visa application form, no.
03:20Did you fill this passenger card yourself?
03:22Yes.
03:23Is this your signature?
03:24Yes.
03:25Okay, you did answer yes to criminal convictions here.
03:30Yes.
03:30And why have you come to Australia?
03:32I've come to do a series of performances and workshops with the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.
03:38And what is your role in the band?
03:40What do you do?
03:40I play drums.
03:41The other band members have crossed the border and are waiting anxiously.
03:47Well, you're looking at the world's next biggest thing.
03:50Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, we're from the south side of Chicago.
03:53This is a family band.
03:54We're all blood brothers.
03:56Marcus, we've been playing with him for almost a year now.
03:59Maybe about two tours we've done with him.
04:02But now they may have to do without him.
04:05With false declarations on his visa application, he'll almost certainly be refused entry.
04:18These are all your signatures on the cards.
04:20Is that correct?
04:21Okay.
04:22A family from Indonesia has nine bags between them.
04:26No food has been declared, but the x-ray shows otherwise.
04:31First bag's got some sort of food in here.
04:35Again, other packaging food in his suitcase as well.
04:38You filled all these cards in, did you?
04:40And who ticked all these no?
04:42Yeah.
04:43Okay, we're going to look in your bags.
04:45Yeah.
04:45Because we found some stuff in the x-ray that we're not too sure about, all right?
04:48Have you travelled to Australia before?
04:50No.
04:51Was it?
04:54Some fruit.
04:55Fruit is no good.
04:58It hasn't been declared.
05:00It carries diseases such as a citrus canker.
05:04So this is fried chicken in here, is it?
05:08This is prohibited.
05:11You just can't bring in meat into the country.
05:14You're coming from Indonesia.
05:17That region has had bird flu.
05:20There is a risk of bringing in diseases and viruses with this type of food.
05:25We're not talking about one tiny drumstick.
05:27We're talking about whole, at least four kilos of fried chicken into Australia.
05:32Yeah, this is not okay.
05:34No, it's not okay.
05:35It's definitely not all right.
05:46In Sydney, this passenger has attempted to bribe his way out of a bag search, claiming he has to catch
05:52a connecting flight.
05:57Officers believe he has not been completely forthcoming, so they decide to test his belongings for any traces of illegal
06:05substances.
06:10Meanwhile, Officer David wants to conduct a frisk search.
06:14I want you to read this card, read both sides of the card.
06:18Yeah, okay.
06:18Okay, so I'm going to detain you and organise for an officer to do a search of you.
06:26Now, so you consent to a search?
06:29Yeah.
06:29You're happy to do it here?
06:30Yeah.
06:31Okay.
06:31Did you want to take your jacket off just to make things a little bit easier?
06:34Yeah.
06:35Well.
06:37So he's going to explain to you what he's going to do.
06:40Just stay there.
06:49So the gentleman who did the frisk search, he tells me that he didn't detect anything that gave him any
06:55concerns.
06:58However, just based on our interaction with you so far, the things that we've discussed, I still do have concerns.
07:06Okay.
07:07So what I'm thinking about is I'm thinking about detaining you to send you to hospital and have you have
07:17them do an ultrasound on you.
07:18That's what we do here.
07:19And that's what I'm considering doing with you.
07:33An entire band is waiting for their drummer to clear immigration.
07:37Officers are investigating the criminal convictions that he failed to declare on his original entertainment visa application.
07:45Marcus, now I'm going to talk to you about the actual criminal conviction.
07:52Can you tell me what happened, what was the incident and what really happened?
07:55I was about 19 years old and I respected this guy.
07:59One night he called me and asked me to drive.
08:01He and his brother got in the car and they had weapons and they wanted me to drive them to
08:05try to find somebody to stick up.
08:07They never really robbed anybody.
08:09But we got pulled over later that night and we had weapons in the car so we all got in
08:15trouble.
08:16My fingerprints weren't on any of the weapons and I was sentenced to attempted robbery.
08:23What did the judge actually send me to six years?
08:28How long did you actually serve?
08:29Nine weeks.
08:31Nine weeks.
08:31Yes.
08:32It's time for Raj to discuss the case with duty manager Linda.
08:36I don't know, six years is a lot of sentence.
08:38Six years is a long sentence.
08:41The conviction was for an attempted robbery so that is taken seriously.
08:44That's a serious case.
08:45That's a serious offense.
08:46It seems the hypnotic brass ensemble may lose their drummer before the tour has even started.
08:53Every band, your bass and your drum is like the heartbeat.
08:56Without that piece you're really missing a good 40 to 50% of your sound.
09:01It'll be embarrassing to go home and tell everybody in Australia and kick me out.
09:05And it'll also be two weeks of work that I will have missed out on.
09:10So, um, I don't want to kiss him back home.
09:21Thousands of packages go through the mail centre in Sydney every day.
09:26Most of them pass screening.
09:28But all it takes is something slightly unusual to draw the attention of Customs and Border Protection.
09:34Officer David has noticed something different on the x-ray of this express mail package.
09:40Um, it's caught my eye because we've got all this organic stuff in there.
09:44The light stuff here too, that's some sort of fabric material maybe.
09:48Uh, the dark stuff here looks a lot more like a concealment of some sort of organic matter.
09:52All suspicious packages are opened by Australia Post before Customs and Border Protection can investigate further.
09:59I'll have a look to see what's inside it.
10:02There you go.
10:03It's a, uh, some sort of costume mask.
10:08It's another one.
10:11I haven't really seen this sort of stuff come through the post before.
10:13This probably explains why I saw the material on the, uh, x-ray.
10:18But, uh, as far as dark patches, could be stuffing inside the mask.
10:24But then again, it could be organic.
10:25It could be narcotics.
10:26So, still have to have a closer look.
10:28Officer Dave will now x-ray one of the heads.
10:32See if there's any dark organic patches.
10:44What is your, what do you think, what, when we say food, what do you think food means?
10:50Everything you eat.
10:51Quarantine officers have already found four kilos of home-cooked chicken in this family's luggage.
10:58And now there's even more.
11:00Just ask them what it is and they're saying that it's, uh, that it's beef.
11:03So, of course, we're, um, it's, uh, it's not allowed to be brought into the country in absolutely no way.
11:09And that they haven't declared it, um, this is just not on.
11:14When did your mother cook this food?
11:17When?
11:17Uh, two days ago.
11:20You want me to try?
11:21No, I don't want you to try it, no.
11:24Definitely not.
11:25This passenger says he has filled out all the landing cards for his family.
11:30Now he could be the one facing a hefty fine.
11:33Meat is not allowed to be brought into Australia.
11:35More importantly, you failed to declare that question six about food.
11:40And you've ticked no.
11:42But you've finally got this fried chicken in your bag.
11:45So there's no excuse.
11:47Is that right?
11:48Of course we're going to destroy it.
11:51But in this instance, we're also going to give you an on-the-spot fine penalty of $220.
12:00As the man heads off to pay the fine, his wife makes a last-minute confession.
12:06The spouse of the person who was fined has made admissions to me that she filled the cards in.
12:11And they didn't say yes because they want to actually keep this beef curry for their mother.
12:17She's led to believe that they can't make or buy that kind of beef in Australia.
12:21And that's why they said no to the questions, hoping they wouldn't be detected by quarantine.
12:38I was sentenced to six years.
12:41And the judge told me that under a shock clause, he let me get a taste of jail.
12:46Because he figured that I was not a bad guy, but I was too easily influenced by my peers.
12:52And that maybe if I got a taste of what it was like to be locked up, it would be
12:55all I needed to not have to get in trouble ever again.
12:58And if I stayed out of trouble while I was locked up, he let me out of time to go
13:02back to college.
13:03And that's what happened.
13:04It was just an unfortunate, stupid mistake I made when I was young, trying to figure out how to be
13:09a man.
13:10And I'm glad that it didn't take me that long to figure out that wasn't the right way.
13:14It was also a big mistake to let his tour manager fill out his visa application.
13:20You declared no, that you did not have criminal convictions.
13:23Now you said you did not fill that part.
13:24I did not fill out this form.
13:25And I was not aware that she answered that way.
13:29Because I did send her my criminal history.
13:32Is that your signature on the form?
13:36Yes.
13:37Tinku faxed this page to me only.
13:40He emailed this to me so that I can print it out, sign it, and scan it, and send it
13:45back to her.
13:45I actually didn't see the whole application, only this page.
13:49So you haven't seen the whole application at all, just that declaration part of the form?
13:55Correct.
13:55Okay.
13:56Apparently it seems that the promoter has intentionally or unintentionally provided wrong information to the Department of Immigration on your
14:04application form on your behalf.
14:06Okay, so we're not really sure who's telling the truth.
14:08Either way, Marcus is in trouble.
14:11But his band's not giving up hope.
14:14You don't know until the ink is dry.
14:16You know what I'm saying?
14:17But it's really going to ruin my day, man.
14:21If they don't let the drama through.
14:23All right.
14:32So is there anything you want to tell me about?
14:35No.
14:35For being an offence?
14:36No?
14:37No.
14:38I'm not asking you Sarah's question.
14:40I'm not laughing.
14:41Yeah.
14:46Yes, I'm not.
14:47Officers are talking to a passenger who offered to bribe an officer.
14:52A frisk search and a swab test are negative.
14:55But officers need to be sure he is not carrying any illegal substances internally.
15:01So if I detain you to send you to hospital to have an internal examination conducted, as in
15:09via x-ray ultrasound?
15:10No, I'd rather not.
15:12Okay, so if you didn't give consent, then what I would then do is I get the Australian Federal
15:16Police to go to a magistrate's court and they will say, we've got this fellow here, Dave's
15:21detained him.
15:22Oh, no, that's fine.
15:22We need consent.
15:24No, that's fine.
15:24So the magistrate will then decide.
15:25Okay.
15:26Okay.
15:26No, that's fine.
15:27No consent to that.
15:28Officer David decides to consult his supervisor before they make their final decision.
15:35We've done his bags.
15:36We've frisked them.
15:37Mm-hmm.
15:38At this stage, we have nothing.
15:40If you think there's something further you need to pursue, then you have to make the decision
15:44whether or not it's an internal matter.
15:46If it's not an internal, you've done everything you can do externally.
15:49What's your options?
15:53A little heads up for you.
15:56Yeah, yeah.
15:56Next time you are in the company of any kind of law enforcement official at all, it's
16:02good.
16:03Do not offer them a bribe.
16:05So don't try that one again.
16:08Mm-hmm.
16:09Okay?
16:10You're good to go.
16:13We're giving him the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't his intention to interfere with
16:19a judicial process.
16:21He was simply just trying to expedite his trip through the Cousins' Baggage Wall.
16:25As far as our risk assessment process is concerned, you know, you can never know 100%, but we
16:32did carry out a very thorough risk assessment of him, and we did not feel that we had any
16:41actual cause to detain him any longer, and so we let him go.
17:02At the Sydney Mail Centre, Officer Dave is about to find out if these costumes from South
17:08America are as innocent as they appear.
17:12This shows three definite concealments of some sort of organic matter.
17:17It does worry me that it could be something other than stuffing, quite possibly narcotics.
17:22I think our lines itemise it, take a swab of the outsides.
17:28The itemiser machine picks up traces of any illegal substances that may be concealed inside.
17:43Drugs detected, cocaine.
17:45This is saying that there is cocaine in there.
17:48Definitely looks like some sort of organic concealment within the mask.
17:52I'm pretty confident to cut it open and see exactly what it is.
17:56It's the only way we're going to find out.
18:07At Sydney Airport, this Chicago jazz band is still hopeful their drummer, Marcus, will be
18:13allowed through immigration.
18:15To me, when I look at Mr. Evans, I see a father.
18:18Like, most of us are fathers.
18:20I see a good man, and I think that there's no way we can, like he said, we can give
18:26y'all
18:26all without our drummer.
18:27Officer Raj has found evidence supporting Marcus's claim that his visa application was filled
18:33out by his tour manager.
18:35As we can see that this is part of the same application form.
18:39The declaration form has got a smaller font than the rest of the actual application.
18:47So what it looks like is that this form was probably scanned or emailed to the passenger
18:54and was signed and sent back.
18:56We'll have to refer this up.
18:58I mean, six years for a serious offence and then he's coming here for a series of concerts?
19:03Is that correct?
19:04He's coming here for about two weeks, a couple of concerts, yeah.
19:06You know, there's a lot to lose here if he has his visa cancelled.
19:09We've got all those band members out there and no drummer.
19:12So that's going to just completely ruin what their plans are.
19:16So there is a lot at stake in this case.
19:17The final decision will now be made by the airport manager.
19:21We just have to wait and see.
19:22Somebody will make a decision and let us know.
19:25But it doesn't look real good right now, it must admit.
19:40At the Sydney Mail Centre, Officer Dave is deconstructing this costume mask
19:45after an x-ray indicated it may hide a concealment.
19:49A swab has also tested positive for traces of cocaine.
19:54Some sort of package inside here.
19:56Looks like two bits of foam stuck together.
19:59First pulled them apart.
20:02You can see some sort of package inside wrapped in red paper.
20:06Yeah, it's a little bit of a smell there too.
20:11Yeah, cocaine's got a fairly distinct smell.
20:13Yeah, you can see some sort of white powder inside underneath the red paper.
20:18Yeah, definitely, definitely shouldn't be there.
20:21Thinking it's cocaine, might just take a little sample out of that
20:24and test it on the street lab and see what that comes back as.
20:27I need a little tiny bit.
20:35The machine will analyse the powder and reveal if it is an illegal substance.
20:41There you go, there's a reading of 1.000 for cocaine,
20:44which is the highest reading you can get.
20:47So, it was a good concealment, a lot of work gone into it.
20:51But, yeah, I mean, the x-ray showed the dark patches on it.
20:54Yeah, it made me suspicious.
20:58The cocaine seized had an estimated street value of more than $415,000.
21:09At Sydney Airport, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is facing the prospect of a tour without their drummer.
21:17Well, markets should be allowed in a day because when Hypnotic comes,
21:19what we do is we get the party started.
21:21And if they let him out here, what they will see is a 100% display of Hypnotic at its
21:26best, at its finest.
21:27Now, we have consulted the airport policy and the airport manager.
21:31I have come to this decision today that we will be immigration clearing you today,
21:37given that you are a prominent member of the band
21:40and you may be a low risk to the Australian community.
21:43We will be checking your criminal history
21:45and if you find that you have been lying to us during this stage
21:49that you did not actually unintentionally fill that form correctly,
21:54then we may actually cancel your visa here on shore.
21:58And so, the long, anxious wait is over for Marcus's band.
22:05Thank you guys.
22:12Thank you guys.
22:12Appreciate it.
22:13I know y'all did a lot of strenuous work.
22:16You know, you had to contemplate with a lot of different people.
22:18You know, did you call President Obama?
22:22Did you call?
22:24Next week on Border Security.
22:27I think you may be concealing something on your body.
22:30Officers confront a feisty passenger.
22:32Whatever. I'll do it. I'll get butt naked if you want.
22:35She attempts to prove that she has nothing to hide.
22:38There's definitely something in there.
22:40An exotic carpet reveals a sinister secret.
22:42I've gone through a lot of hard work to do it.
22:46You said you're running a hotel.
22:48And a family struggles to get their facts straight.
22:51The mother and the son know nothing about the hotel.
22:53Aftershoots � Norwegian.
22:54Aftershootsiał.
22:54Aftershootsiałamnop
22:54We'll let you cross.