Korean Cocaine Trafficker | Border Security: Australia's Front Line

[Music] [Music] tonight on border security this passenger is very nervous and customs wants to find out why there's definitely something in you know all three tins but not all the same i'm sure can you listen to me don't don't give me go inside tell me don't go inside can you listen to me officers need answers and they're not getting them from this passenger didn't even cross my mind careless chefs with ingredients to cook up a storm we're gonna have a good look in these bags customs officers are trained to look for the smallest inconsistencies when it comes to passengers using techniques to determine whether a person is here for legal or illegal purposes we've had a gentleman arrive today from japan from narita he's transited from vancouver and canada the gentleman's been selected for 100 baggage due to the fact that he's very nervous around the carousel has a frisk screen done and he just said to me if i'm in trouble if there's a problem it is not only the passengers constant wardrobe changes that has customs questioning officers are beginning to think that there's a bit more to this passenger and their interest is shifting to what he's carrying [Music] the other side of the customs hall officers are interested in an israeli passenger who's just arrived from bangkok they have concerns about his travel plans and personal details you're here for two weeks no yeah no the top 28 days 28 days and he's got an appointment were you in the israeli army yeah when did you get out 29 eight years ago in order to risk assess officers ask simple questions and gauge the passenger's response your wife let you go on holidays yes of course i have two kids yeah four years later you have no problem traveling no foreign three months and you left him i love fishing i'm coming only for fishing do you have any fishing rods this passenger's answers are raising concerns with officers [Music] the last of the morning rush hour is filtering through sydney airport and over at quarantine things come to a stop when officers notice something unusual on the x-ray i'll have a look at that bag something interesting that and that one too thank you peter's just found two passengers that have just come through from chilling uh on the x-ray machine we have seen that there are a few items that we need to search you packed this bag yes did you pack this bag yeah and the contest this bag belonged to you yes yes okay generally uh when they return home they pick up items as gifts and they don't declare them we find that the items may be high risk and if high-risk items have not been declared the passenger will have some explaining to do [Applause] [Music] in customs a passenger's nervous behavior and the contents of his baggage has officers asking questions now they're interested in the large cans of fruit and vegetables found in his bags there's different consistencies throughout all three things and the little tins are there's something inside the tins but i don't think it's anything of our interest but these ones are okay the passion is being searched and they've found four large tins of fruit and beans and they're raising some sort of concerns items concealed in the darkest places will show up on an x-ray there's a couple of packages in there there's one big one there either side um you see that in all three tins there's definitely something in you know all three tins but not all the same the x-ray has found a number of inconsistencies in the tins of food yeah take all three back in your room yeah open more up have a look at all the different packages inside it while the passenger changes his clothes yet again michael wants to open the tins and find out what's going on the story is his brother's in korea and his brother can't get this type in career his brother's flying here tomorrow to meet him and he's brought these from canada to give to his brother and if the cans do contain only food then why is this passenger acting so nervously the fact that he's so nervous while he's talking to us just makes you want to look further [Music] at sydney airport these passengers from chile are about to cop a little heat from quarantine what is this yeah that's that's just a cotton yeah but what is cotton a plant yes cotton may seem harmless but it can easily carry disease and insects which could be devastating to our cotton industry you did read all these questions yes yes in your own language and you understood these questions you still refuse to declare when you sign this it becomes a legal document the items you've brought in today are high risk items whole cotton flour very very high risk while there are a few items at a high risk it's the cotton which is of greatest concern the goods that we seized off the passenger were quite high aggressive quarantine material one being cotton buds that they were going to actually grow in her backyard and the second being corn both of these pose quite a high risk of quarantine concern because they can both carry plant pathogens and diseases and if they were grown here then the impact on our cotton industry would be quite high when you tick no yeah okay you have broken the law yeah yeah okay [Music] do you know where you're gonna go fishing i know not australia i know it's not cold cold and good trafficking this is what i know all right over in customs a passenger's lack of travel plans has officers concerned do you have a ticket yeah yeah nothing do you know where you want to go brisbane brisbane 20 minutes from brisbane what's in them the noosa no gold coast no it's a it's beautiful city but you have good deal for fishing what's in them you're 20 minutes from brisbane no no maybe one hour 40 minutes gladstone garnett do you ever written down somewhere no this is what friend it's been here before charles is going to have to get his story straight before customs will let him through and at the moment they don't seem too convinced [Applause] [Music] over in quarantine these passengers have failed to declare some prohibited items which are extremely high risk so i'm surprised that she bought it like and she knew and but she said to a person on the plane that she had it in there and nothing happened like she said no nothing's going to happen if you are unsure you tick yes if you tick yes we will you can uh we will explain to you what the problem is with it you will not receive the fine it's because you filled it all out and signed it and you clicked did not declare yeah okay that's what say where you're receiving the fine okay diseases like bacterial wilt which are carried on cotton plants flowers and raw cotton have the potential to wipe out australia's billion dollar a year cotton industry they realise they made a mistake when it came to declaring but they did know that the goods were in the bags so and failing to answer all the questions correctly they did receive it fine the passengers were issued with a 220 fine for failing to declare prohibited goods and we're finally free to go next time declare okay thank you [Music] you don't have anything on your body today anything illegal over in customs a young passenger arriving from japan attracted the attention of officers because of his nervous behaviour after a search officers now suspect a concealment of narcotics in these large cans of food found in the passengers bags i'm going to call the drug detector dog unit to come down i want the dogs to run the tins before we continue any interview with the gentleman today just to confirm in my mind that the substance inside the tin is going to get a positive action for an aquatic from the dogs and the dogs have reacted to the cannes contest that's a very good concealment it's all commercially packaged all the weights everything's on it officers now have to determine exactly what the substance is okay what we're going to do is we're going to hit that number one all the gear will light up blue okay once we go to number two it should start changing to pink which it's changing up top and the last one will hit will confirm that all the gear rises and will start sinking in blue that's 100 cocaine so that's the best that's the best test i've seen for a long time the evidence is now mounting against the passenger the x-ray the dogs the narco pouch have all confirmed that at least one of the cans contains a sizeable amount of cocaine okay but do you understand that you don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything [Music] every year thousands of tourists cross our borders and it's quarantine's job to stop pests and disease getting into australia you're aware of the contents of the bags you read the questions on the card [Applause] australia is home to one of the world's most unique ecosystems isolated for tens of millions of years any small infestation could be lethal just being being one of the biggest beef producing nations foot and mouth and sort of kill us so were these declared why did we have to tell us today completely myself in another officer we're just going to have a good look at your bags okay okay they've admitted to the curry paste but now they have an even bigger problem [Music] [Music] this passenger has customs baffled he has no travel plans and few travel documents officers are trying to determine if this israeli is a legitimate tourist it just seems rather a strange situation with this guy that he's got just a passport he's got some money he says he's here for fishing he's left his wife and two kids and a three-month-old baby behind are you going to go fishing in thailand too no shopping thailand is chopping i come back i'm coming only whatever i tell you are coming 28 days yeah maybe before maybe before but you only have about a thousand dollars you're gonna buy your no no money hi give me uh but how are you gonna get access to this money you have you have no bank cards you know what he's traveling travel here you know i don't do it shopping only the fishing gear shopping i do at the thailand so when you want some money where do you pick it up what's your name in english every shop you have these office you have these when you go to western union and the money's there how do you tell them who you are yeah my passport that's all that's it yes that's passport no more what you want i don't know tell me what you want well it just seems strange that you haven't got any other id any other identification listen passport is good listen i'm very tired okay you have everything what you want you won't give me go inside please no i'm going out i just stopped straight listen to me listen to me tal calm down it just seems strange to me that you travel all the way around the world and the only thing you carry is your passport tarl's vague story is a concern for customs next step they decide to check him for drugs have you done the swabs on this bloke nothing at all do you want some swabs oh definitely let's get some [Applause] two british chefs have just landed at sydney airport and quarantine has now found some potentially dangerous items on the menu just got an assortment of fresh plant material here the girls were just gonna make themselves a little thai curry we do look at chefs a bit because um they do like to grab condiments and little things that they have overseas that they're not used to over here they've had a bunch of morning glory leaves uh some chilies uh chopped ginger chopped onion and a lime so we've got fresh plant material we've got a whole fruit we've got vegetable with seeds so very high risk the tired travelers were hoping to chow down when they arrived in sydney yes we wanted a really nice curry when we got here it's gonna be dinner tonight andy has to weigh up the significance of the offense and as it is the girl's first trip to australia he is just going to caution them just a verbal warning today girls you must declare any food you have especially fresh plant material like that with no ingredients for their curry the girls might have to try some vegemite on toast [Music] customs have uncovered an attempt to import cocaine into the country so what we're trying to do is inform him of his rights that he doesn't have to say or do anything uh take him to an interview room get an interpreter so we can fully then inform him of his rights before the federal police come down to chat to him but before that he just needs to use the bathroom so we're going to take him to a controlled toilet in case he may have had something internally as well he's trying to pass it customs check for drugs by sifting through the toilet contents although this time they found nothing they may have to keep an eye on the passenger and his movements until they are a hundred percent happy we've started audio video recording what's happened asked him a few questions about if he declared the goods today if he was aware that he carried those goods with him and what was inside the tins he said he doesn't know what's inside the tins but he said he did carry the goods into australia today it's strange because he's got a can opener in his bag for the tins if you were just a courier bringing drugs in you'd take it straight to some person they'd grab it and go so he may be involved a bit more than just a normal curio he may have helped organise it [Music] customs has concerns about a passenger's travel intentions and they need to decide whether to allow him into the country a drug test is being conducted on his baggage that may sway their decision he's got no id just apart from his uh passport he uh reckons he's coming here to do some fishing he's just left a three-month-old baby he's left them at home just seems a bit strange you know just to come all the way over here and not bring any any id with you at all nothing at all and uh just seems strange so we'll just check him over no sign of drugs but we're going to hand it over to one of our supervisors and just see what he thinks that just the situation is just strange so we'll see he's got about a thousand bucks cash it's got no other id all he's got is a passport which was issued a couple of weeks ago basically we did some mine scans it all came back negative the only trouble is look how long's your burning ban caught one day how long did you stay in bangkok sir one night just transit didn't you that's it i'm touristy transit okay right after i have people it's that's okay that's all i want to know okay we've discussed it with immigration [Music] they say there's nothing that they can do because the guy has stated he's here for fishing he's got some money we can't find anything that's out of the ordinary as you know in your own country we have to you have to be very careful of who comes across your border we have to be we have to satisfy ourselves that you are a tourist this is what i tell you you do it you're working very good yeah you know it's very powerful okay thank you very much you enjoy your stay okay thank you very much see you later yeah in 20th you see me okay on the way back welcome to australia officers are satisfied that tarl is a legitimate tourist who poses no threat [Music] large cans in this passenger's bag contain cocaine cleverly concealed inside the tins of fruit and vegetables now the passenger's time with customs is almost over and it isn't looking good for him the federal agents are questioning him he's quite upset as you can imagine the situation that he's in and he's really upset that his mum and dad are going to find out the passenger was convicted of importing six kilos of cocaine with a street value of nearly 1.2 million dollars next week on border security oh crew all crew be aware we have a target our intention is to board customs begins a highly dangerous nighttime mission right on the bow now you seem nervous officers believe this passenger has something to hide he's got all the indications that he might be carrying narcotics and a spool becomes the focus of attention oh there we go as customs unravels a bizarre concealment that's interesting that's border security

Channel: DangerTV

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Id: Cv1ZjSdu1cI

Length: 21min 35sec (1295 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 05 2022