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00:09Tonight on Border Security, he's had a holiday with his mates in Bali and returned with a bag
00:19full of mischief. Why do you have those? For my son. How old's your son? Two and a half.
00:24Definitely be interested in this one. The fashion world is in for a shock with this
00:29incredible concealment and the investigation which may prove this
00:34Irish backpacker is involved in a massive scam. The information you're giving me is absolute nonsense.
00:53Customs and Border Protection have a duty to stop a large range of prohibited items from
00:59crossing our borders. Today in Perth, two mates have returned from Bali and have a few souvenirs
01:07that will need to be inspected. On their card, they've both ticked yes to question one and
01:11declared weapons, so we're just going to investigate that a little bit further.
01:17It's like a bow and arrow kind of thing. Bow and arrow? And blowed up. And blowed up.
01:22Yeah. Wait till you see what's inside. As soon as the bag is open, pornographic DVDs are found.
01:31They will need to be checked to make sure the content meets Australia's censorship regulations.
01:37Do you have any other pornography DVDs? Yep. Just these ones? Yep.
01:41Quiries. We're just going to get those checked, okay?
01:47What's this one? It's a bow or a pipe. Is that all of it? Or there's more?
01:53Oh, that's probably all of it for that one.
01:56Okay. What's this one? That's a laser. Okay. At this point, just because I've found that
02:01one, I'm just going to caution you. Okay? Just get you to listen carefully. You do not
02:05have to say or do anything unless you wish to do so, but anything you do say or do may
02:10be used in evidence. Do you understand? Well, am I in trouble for some? Do you understand
02:15that caution? Yeah. Yep.
02:26Australia provides an incentive for young travellers to get a second working holiday visa as long
02:33as they first spend at least three months working in specified industries in regional areas.
02:39However, immigration is aware of a scam that attempts to defraud this scheme, and Officer
02:47Ross suspects this returning Irish passenger may be involved.
02:52Please be aware that if you give me false information, it could cause me to exercise my delegation
02:59as an immigration officer. What I want you to do, Teclin, is tell me precisely why you've
03:05come to Australia today. I'm planning on working for about 12, 14 weeks and get enough money
03:12saved and go on another road trip. What sort of work do you do? A bit of everything, mostly welding.
03:20Let's talk about visas. You've had two of them. Yeah. With any visa that's granted to you,
03:27there's criteria that needs to be satisfied at the time of the grant of the visa, and you
03:31demonstrate honesty when you complete an application form. Yeah. Yeah. And I can show you here
03:38that this is your application. This question is very important. Have you undertaken specified
03:44work in regional Australia for a total of three months? Yeah. That's so far, isn't it? Yeah, you've
03:51answered yes to that. Now, there's other questions. Do you have approved evidence that you have
03:57undertaken specified work for three months? Can you demonstrate to me today that you did?
04:11Every day, officers at Sydney's International Mail Facility screen over 10,000 parcels and letters,
04:19any of which could be hiding prohibited or restricted goods or substances. I mean, we're looking at
04:26all the parcels, assessing each one, each address, where it's coming from. But we will pay more
04:31attention to ones coming from high-risk countries. Well, here we go. This one's from Brazil. So we pay
04:37extra attention to this one. Known source country, which we're always looking out for. Definitely
04:43worth a closer look than most. See a lot of organic material here. We'd definitely be interested in
04:49this one. Kerry, can we get a look at this one? What's it got? Package out of Brazil.
04:55There's a lot of organic matter in there, which I'm interested in having a look at.
04:59It looks like lots of small packets. Thanks, mate. Round, circular items. I don't know what
05:05they are. We'll see if the declaration says anything. No, it doesn't. It's in Portuguese,
05:11so I don't read Portuguese. What I'm mainly concerned about is the organic matter seems to
05:16be within the other plastic matters or the compound materials. Yeah. So it really seems to be intertwined,
05:23so there could be some sort of concern in there. Definitely worth a good examination.
05:33I'm not getting arrested or something. No, you're not. These ones are prohibited imports
05:38into Australia, so we will be seizing that from you, but they're not allowed.
05:41In Perth, this man declared he had a blowpipe and a bow and arrow packed in his luggage.
05:46But officer Sarah is finding much more than that. Where's the, where's it say, is it written
05:53somewhere that you can't bring lasers or something? Did I miss that? Just question one on your
05:58incoming passenger card, anything that might be considered a weapon. Why are they prohibited?
06:03All started back, kids shining them in the pilot's eyes, planes like that, so they're not allowed.
06:08What's me laser?
06:11Okay, what are these ones? BB bullets. They're not allowed either. What's this one?
06:20A toy kid's gun. What does it do? It shoots them plastic bullets. Not allowed? Why do you have those?
06:28For my son. How old's your son? Two and a half.
06:47At Sydney's International Mail Centre, a package has arrived from Brazil and the x-ray shows there
06:54could be something suspicious hidden inside. It looks like there's a possibility of a
06:59concealment from what the x-ray image showed. Basically what I'm seeing are, looks like sewing
07:04materials. Haberdashery goods, yeah, stuff. Craft items. Know whether anything could really be
07:12concealed in these. Ah. That's more interesting.
07:15There's no room for concealment inside a sequin, but buttons, cloth covered buttons, um, yeah,
07:23there's room for concealment. We just want to pierce the button so we can see if there's anything
07:28inside of it. Ah, it feels like there's a very soft metal on the top. I can see a bit
07:35of silver there,
07:36so that would imply to me that there is a thin layer of metal, but there could be anything really
07:41underneath it, and it is really starting to give, so. Ah, yeah. Buttons should not have white powder
07:50inside them. Not allowed? That's going too. Why do you have those? For my son. How old's your son? Two
08:08and a half.
08:09This passenger and his mate have arrived from Bali with a bag that's filled with a number of souvenirs,
08:15which are classed as weapons. Thought it was all sweet. I didn't know there was a drama with the laser.
08:20You walk down the beach and they sell it to you on the beach, so, yeah, you buy it and
08:25think you're
08:25allowed to take it home. Do I get to keep all this stuff? Ah, you won't get to keep. Apart
08:31from the gun
08:32and the laser? The blow darts. The laser, the gun, the BB pellets. The blow darts. The blow darts, no.
08:38What about the pipe? The pipe. Can't keep the pipe. No. Why not? Because it's a weapon.
08:48The only thing I can keep is my bow. Yep. That's a pain in the arse, man.
08:56Kay, because you've actually marked this on your incoming passenger card and done the right thing,
09:00we will only be seizing these items today from you. I won't be fined. Yep.
09:05The man's pornographic DVDs have been examined for offensive content and it seems there is one
09:11more thing that he won't be taking home today. And out of these, just taking one. Taking one?
09:17Yeah. That's the one I wanted. That's the one that's not allowed. This is the main one.
09:24Not much you can do about it, is there? My kids' toys, they're gone. He may have lost a few
09:30souvenirs,
09:30but hopefully he's learnt a lesson. I'm not going to go overseas again. If I do, I'm not going to
09:36buy
09:36shit over it.
09:48In Sydney, immigration officers have reasons to believe this Irish passenger is trying to obtain a
09:56second working holiday visa by fraudulently stating that he worked on a farm in South Australia for
10:02three months. Can you give me some evidence that can conclusively demonstrate that you've
10:07conducted three months? No, see, we didn't get paid. We only worked on the farm and they put us up,
10:14fed us and everything, and every now and then if we wanted to go into town to get us a
10:17loan in the
10:17cheap. That was it. Did they pay you any remuneration at all? Did they pay you any money?
10:25No, nothing. Did they have a foreman on the farm? Yeah. Yeah, it was a Irish lad. Who? What's his
10:34name?
10:35Stephen. Stephen. And what's his position on the farm? He was head lad. He told you what to do and
10:42where to go.
10:43Officer Ross will check if Stephen does in fact work on the farm, but there is some other information
10:49on the passenger's application that could be false. Further down the page here, you're able to nominate
10:56an ABN. Okay, so who does this ABN number belong to? When we were leaving, he just gave us the
11:05details
11:05and all that, just to fill in whenever we were going online. What's the name of the farm?
11:12And that's the place code where you're at? Yeah. I've done a little bit of research on this,
11:17Declan, and the information has come back to us that they've never heard of you.
11:23I'm still right, right?
11:39Customs and Border Protection officers are always on the lookout for subtle signs passengers may be
11:45trying to hide something. Today, this Australian man has been taken aside for questioning and an
11:52inspection. There's a fellow coming from Thailand. He's been over there for a week and we've got
11:58concerns that he may be carrying narcotics on his body today. We've got an officer going to examine
12:03the baggage and we're going to assess the need to do a body search on him. And if we determine
12:08that
12:08there is a need, then we'll go ahead and do that. I'm just going to ask you a few questions.
12:11Okay,
12:12so what did you do when you were in Thailand? I was going to get married with my girlfriend,
12:15which I was with her and a half, but I couldn't get a ring on time, so I thought I'd
12:21just, you know,
12:21give her a break. And do you travel to Thailand often? Yeah, to see her. I'm going to bring her
12:25around in December. What does she do over there? Does she have a... Dental assistant, yeah. Oh,
12:29right, okay. Yeah, yeah. So how long was your stay this time? Oh, just a week. Do you know what
12:34this
12:34does? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. The swab of his belongings will help determine if he has been in contact with
12:41narcotics.
13:01We made some inquiries about whether you did work on that farm. And the information has come back to us
13:07that they've never heard of you. Oh, sorry. Okay, I'm going to give you consideration to your answer,
13:17and I will make contact with that farm again. And we'll verify whether you did in fact
13:25work on that farm. Declan stated that he worked on the farm for someone called Stephen.
13:33This phone call to the employer should establish the truth.
13:37Do you have an active role in employing people?
13:42Oh, okay. So you're the primary employer. Righto. Do you know Declan Dooley?
13:50Okay, what about a guy called Stephen? Do you know him? Never heard of him.
13:58Okay.
14:02Jason is the principal employer for the farm. Never heard of you.
14:10There is absolutely no record of Declan Dooley. He's also telling me Stephen is not known to him. He,
14:18that person has never ever worked on his property.
14:24When we commenced our interview, I specifically stated to you that pursuant to section 234 of the
14:30Migration Act, you're required to provide me with truthful information.
14:34Can you demonstrate to me conclusively that you did work on that farm? I'll give you this opportunity
14:40again, Declan. I'm a pretty fair sort of a guy.
14:42They've not both. They've never kept any records or nothing. The only records I have of is the ones
14:49that went through emails and the agencies and all that.
14:53Declan, you need to demonstrate to me conclusively that the information you are providing is truthful,
14:59because at the moment, I'm inclined to believe that the information you're giving me is just absolute nonsense.
15:19An assortment of buttons has been found inside a parcel from Brazil, and Officer Kane has discovered
15:26one of them contains white powder. Buttons would not normally be expected to have white powder inside
15:33them, so I think you found something, Kane, that we'll be interested in. So we'll have to test that.
15:40So out of Brazil, we'd be expecting it to be cocaine more likely than anything. Lots of source countries
15:47around South America and Brazil for cocaine, so we'll get a cocaine test for that.
15:58The test tells us that it should be separated into two colours, and that's definitely what I'm seeing here.
16:03So that's excellent. That's exactly what we want on our presumptive test, and as far as our knowledge
16:08is concerned, there's cocaine in those buttons. Looking at this, what we say about 250 buttons,
16:14possibly one gram of cocaine in each button, we would think. So you'd be looking at a fine of about
16:20a
16:20quarter of a kilo. That's full.
16:36That's full.
16:50He's really nervous, he's really skittish, really nervous.
16:53In Sydney, officers have taken a swab test of this passenger's belongings
16:58and it's come up with a positive result for cocaine.
17:02We're interested in if you've got drugs today.
17:04No, no, no, absolutely not.
17:05Did you use any drugs while you were overseas?
17:07No, absolutely not.
17:08No, never.
17:09OK.
17:10So you've got no drugs on you today?
17:11Absolutely not.
17:12Nothing.
17:13OK.
17:15All right.
17:16We'll get a free scan.
17:18Officers are concerned the passenger may be carrying narcotics on his body
17:22or there's the possibility that he has an internal concealment.
17:26How are you feeling?
17:27All right?
17:27Do you want a glass of water?
17:30I'm all right.
17:31You're all right?
17:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:32OK.
17:36OK.
17:36Hi, how are you?
17:37I'm actually detaining you for a first search so I want you to read both sides of this card
17:42and if there's anything you don't understand, ask me.
17:49There will be a male officer that will be conducting the first search.
17:52Yep.
17:52OK.
17:52He won't touch any bare skin.
17:54He'll just be going over your clothes.
17:55Yeah, that's fine.
17:56You can have the search done here in the public area or we can take you into a private room,
18:00whichever you prefer.
18:01Yep.
18:01Are you comfortable to be first here or do you want to go into your room?
18:04You can go inside, yeah.
18:05You'd like to go into your room?
18:05OK.
18:06That's not a problem.
18:06If you want the first to stop, please let us know.
18:09Yep, sure.
18:09We'll just go.
18:10Yeah, that's fine, mate.
18:31Customs and Border Protection officers are detaining a man who's agreed to a frisk search
18:36but has requested that it's done in a private room.
18:39Do you reckon he's internal?
18:41It's a possibility.
18:43We've got readings.
18:44I swabbed his clothes.
18:46I swabbed the toiletry bag and I swabbed his bum bag, the inside of his bum bag that
18:50he's carrying around his way through his water in it.
18:54Things that he would have touched with his hands.
18:56We might interview him a bit more.
18:59The frisk search is complete and nothing is found.
19:02But there's still a concern he may have an internal concealment.
19:09Was there any complaints?
19:10Did a body search on him.
19:12We didn't find anything on the frisk.
19:15Then we weren't completely satisfied so we took him back into the room, asked him further questions.
19:20After further questioning officers are able to establish that the man's travel movements are legitimate.
19:28And they are now satisfied he is not concealing any narcotics.
19:41I'm inclined to believe that the information you're giving me is just absolute nonsense.
19:49This Irish passenger has provided the details of a South Australian farm to qualify him for a second working holiday
19:57visa.
19:57But Officer Ross suspects the information is fraudulent.
20:02Where did you get the ABN number from?
20:05You know, if you mind Stephen.
20:06Right, who's Stephen?
20:09I don't know who he is.
20:13Did you have to give him any money for it?
20:15The ABN number?
20:16Mmm, $1000.
20:20It's a fair bit, isn't it?
20:21You got any chance of recovering it?
20:23Uh-huh.
20:24No.
20:26You think he's dutted you?
20:27Mm-hmm.
20:28Yeah, I think he has too.
20:30Further to our interview, Declan, the information provided here is definitely not a truthful answer, is it?
20:37No.
20:37No.
20:38Can you offer me any reason why I should not cancel your visa?
20:45Just come out here and just wanted to work and travel.
20:48Yeah.
20:50You've provided me with so much information that is not truthful, Declan, that I don't have any alternative but to
20:59cancel your visa.
21:07Our investigation branch is very interested in anybody who is selling these ABN numbers or who are involved in this
21:14kind of fraud to assist people to get the second working holiday maker.
21:18I'm aware that there have been a number of advertisements on the internet which is offering this kind of service
21:24and there's been a big crack down from the department in having those advertisements removed and further investigated.
21:29It's a scam, for sure.
21:31I want to see these people located.
21:34I want to see these people prosecuted.
21:38If Declan had legitimately completed his three months specified work in a regional area, he would have been allowed back
21:45into Australia to continue his working holiday.
21:53Next on Border Security, the fight to protect our borders hots up.
22:01This passenger is very nervous and customs needs to know why.
22:05There's definitely something in, you know, all three tins but not all the same.
22:10It's anomalies.
22:11And a package with an incredible concealment.
22:14So we don't know where that reaction is coming from.
22:19That's Border Security.