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00:10Tonight on Border Security, there's evidence this man is up to no good.
00:15I suspect that it may be concealing narcotics.
00:18But officers are dealing with a very cool customer.
00:21But I have the right to say nothing.
00:23A serious situation wipes the smile from this clown's face.
00:28Sorry, it's my night.
00:29Sorry.
00:30No, give me five.
00:31No, no help for five.
00:32And an officer is caught in the middle of a domestic dispute.
00:36I have no money.
00:38My wife will call the money.
00:39She don't want to play.
00:58Customs and Border Protection are risk assessing this German passenger after officers noticed his nervous behaviour at the primary line.
01:07He's coming from a flight from Dubai today.
01:10The gentleman is coming for a holiday here in Sydney.
01:13He said he's here to see kangaroos.
01:14He was acting suspicious when he's been processed.
01:18And a customs officer stopped him and had a chat to him and wanted to look further.
01:43His travel through high-risk countries raises alarm bells and a swab has been taken from his baggage to test
01:50for narcotics.
02:13At the other end of the Sydney terminal there are concerns this Italian man may not be here as a
02:20tourist.
02:20he has told the officers he is a professional clown and do you bring
02:28makeup with you today sorry you bring your makeup you bring any of your things
02:34today only day he insists he's here to visit a friend in Queensland are you
02:41going to work while you're here though your friend she organized somewhere for
02:44you to work now when I I want to just look this country the city and after I
02:53don't know I don't know I'm sorry how much money you have on this 800 euro 800
03:00euro and you think that's enough for one month to stay in Australia yeah if you
03:07finish my money I go back no I'll just go and have a talk with the supervisor from
03:13immigration and then come back down okay why you tell me about this is that it's
03:19a problem if your friend here he's going to look after you then it's not a
03:23problem
03:25my office is concerned that he might not be staying here legally he might be here to
03:29work illegally against his visa I had a discussion with him and his story is a
03:33little bit inconsistent he's a street performer like a clown he performs at
03:41water world in Europe and he basically said he has a friend in Brisbane who works
03:47up in one of the theme parks up there so I'm just going to refer him to immigration and see
03:50if they wish to have a chat with him
03:58what's inside this bag in Melbourne a husband and wife have just returned from China although they
04:06haven't declared anything an x-ray image of their bags leads quarantine to suspect they
04:11might be trying to sneak in a few treats from home so what's in this bag any food items in
04:19here
04:21what's this the noodle put in noodle now I need both of your attention I just want you to tell
04:29me why
04:30you failed to declare them on your declaration card I think that one says that not the illegal
04:37now can you read question six to me please any any food so it's any food you need to declare
04:45all
04:46your food it's not up to you to decide whether or not it's allowed into Australia and in fact there's
04:52certain items here which are not permitted into Australia yeah this here is lily bulb and lily bulb
04:59is not allowed into Australia yeah okay now also I can't identify this and you can't really tell
05:07me what it is now it's not an original container no so it's obviously homemade homemade homemade now
05:14because it's homemade and I cannot identify it again it's not permitted into Australia okay how often do
05:22you go back to China oh every every year almost every year so really you travel through Melbourne
05:29airport sufficiently yeah only you should really know you know the quarantine laws it's not looking
05:35good officers have just tested the bags of a German man for traces of narcotics it's come up positive for
05:52a reading for cocaine so now that we've had a positive reading for narcotics we will organize to
05:58conduct a frisk search make sure that the passenger is not carrying anything within his body
06:10yes please just read it all so you I know that you understand you do not have to remove any
06:16closing or
06:16shoes you don't have to read it out loud if you don't want hey you can search me so you
06:22give your
06:22consent would you prefer the search to be done here or in a private room as the frisk search begins
06:37officers take a closer look at his empty suitcase and immediately notice a problem we just have some
06:44glue so it looks like it's being tampered with
06:59hi you're going customs and border protection are referring a man to immigration because there are
07:05concerns he may plan to work at a theme park in Queensland this friend is apparently the sister
07:11of a friend he hasn't seen her for 20 years and he said she's going to meet him at the
07:15airport he
07:16says he's worked in like water parks and fun parks in Europe and apparently she works for one of the
07:22fun
07:22parks up there it's a bit hard because his English isn't a hundred percent the best it's a bit hard
07:26to
07:26get out exactly what's going on immigration officer Yvonne will interview the man with the help of an
07:33interpreter it's the motorio why have you come to Australia and how long do you intend to stay here
07:43do you currently have a job because what I'm trying to do is to establish that you're what we call
08:01a
08:01bona fide visitor that you are able to support yourself while you're here officer Yvonne needs
08:06to find out more about his Australian contact who supposedly runs a water theme park but he's not
08:13cooperating it's not a criminal it's not a criminal yes okay and that's what I want to be absolutely
08:24certain of listen my questions relate to what I'm trying to establish here okay and the longer we
08:39debate whether or not I'm allowed to ask you these questions and I am the longer we debate it the
08:44longer this is going to drag out a lot quarantine has discovered undeclared prohibited food in the bags
09:01of a couple returning from China yeah it's not looking good yeah because you know first of all
09:07you obviously understand the rules yeah I've asked you if you have any food you've declared no food in
09:14your card and you have it hidden in your bag now just wait here for one second okay thank you
09:19it just
09:21got some non non declared dried spices and that some of which not permitted into Australia for example
09:27there's some lily bulb and some non-commercial vegetable as well in a jar it's very important
09:36that you declare all your food items okay you need to declare it so that we can inspect it all
09:41right
09:41now for actually failing to declare these food items you're going to receive a fine of 220 dollars
09:54no no no no no now are you able to pay for this fine today all right yeah okay all
10:04right I have no
10:05money my wife will call the money I don't want to buy a frisk search is being conducted of a
10:21German
10:21man who has arrived from Dubai his empty bag has also been taken to the x-ray for closer inspection
10:28where officers immediately notice a problem and what you can see down here is a bit of blue residue
10:35so the bags you can tell has been tampered with you wouldn't see that in your bag the other thing
10:39you can notice too is where they screwed it here there's a space where the original screw
10:43should have gone nothing under your foot mate no
10:52everything okay with this sir everything's fine
10:56there is nothing concealed on the man's body but an x-ray of his bag may tell a different story
11:06normally it would look like this with nothing in it and here we see a darker shading
11:09which appears to be in the shape of a rectangle so there's definitely something
11:13there an anomaly in the x-ray at this stage we don't know what it is
11:41a professional clown arriving from italy is refusing to answer questions that could help
11:48immigration clear him
11:54I don't know if that's going to make me a genuine tourist
11:57I don't know whether that's going to make me a genuine tourist
12:00what we are concerned about is that you do not
12:03A. break the condition of your visa by going to work
12:06and B. that you do not become somebody who requires assistance
12:10non I am only in the middle of a road
12:13I don't want to be a verbone I am a non-for-a-tale
12:16I have been advised
12:17I have somebody who is putting me up I am not going to be sleeping under the park bench
12:23A. this point I am missing out of respect
12:26just asking for respect
12:29asking all these things
12:33sorry
12:35do you understand that by making all these statements you are just making this process
12:42longer no wait a minute by answering the questions the questions would be answered
12:47the information would be put to the supervisor and a decision would be made quickly
12:53however the passenger is sticking to his principles
12:58this is my life sorry sorry it's my life sorry
13:18this couple has been issued with a $220 quarantine fine
13:24for bringing in undeclared prohibited food
13:27no give me five no no no no but she who controls the purse strings refuses to pay the fine
13:35yeah I have no money my wife is not the money I don't want to yeah doesn't matter I find
13:40that
13:41you find and you don't have a credit card I got a credit card you keep it the boss has
13:48a credit card
13:48yeah you have my credit card and after a quick search through her handbag she hands over his
13:57wallet
13:57you know this one don't move don't move 50 50 dollar here you give me five just wait here and
14:05I'll do the paperwork yeah she's a bit of a fiery title isn't she but I think she is probably
14:10the boss
14:12she don't want to pay the husband can clearly see the lighter side of the situation and with the fine
14:20paid that's the end of that problem but the beginning of another
14:43this is really to sort of just educate and reinforce rather than punish them I've got a feeling next time
14:50they sort of come through they'll remember to you know spend a bit more time reading the questions
14:54and actually answering it while they wait for their paperwork he gives his wife a little space to cool off
15:22in Sydney an x-ray of a German passengers bag has shown inconsistencies
15:29so hi I'm the supervisor today hey we've x-rayed your bag today and we found an anomaly in there
15:36an anomaly? yep it doesn't look like what it should when it goes through x-ray like what an empty
15:42bag should
15:44okay at this point in time I suspect that it may be concealing narcotics in the base okay so I'm
15:52going
15:52to caution you you do not have to say or do anything but anything you do say or do may
15:57be used as evidence
15:58yes do you understand that yes yep can you repeat to me what you think that means I think this
16:04name
16:04said if I say you something you can use it in court and but I have the right to say
16:10nothing
16:11exactly right okay what we're going to do now is we're going to move into an interview room yeah okay
16:19okay all right so now we move to the interview room you will move to the interview room while the
16:24passenger remains unusually calm officers will step up their investigation they'll drill the base of the
16:32bag to find out what if anything is inside
16:58sorry is my life sorry sorry in an interview room an Italian passenger is unhappy with the line of
17:07questioning that could help immigration clear him he didn't like me asking him questions about how
17:13much money he's made or exactly what his jobs were and so on he claimed it was a great invasion
17:18of his
17:18privacy we spent a good seven eight minutes debating whether or not I'm allowed to asking
17:23these questions but the thing to question now I think may be to ring up the friend and see what
17:31her expectation yes that's what I was going to say give her a call there's concerns he's planning to
17:36work for a friend that officers believe runs a water themed amusement park yeah I'm calling from the
17:44Department of Immigration at Sydney Airport okay I'd like to just have a little word with you I'm
17:49currently having an interview with somebody who says that he's coming here to visit you do you know
17:53who that is mm-hmm officer Yvonne gets all the information she needs okay thanks for your help all right
18:02bye and the true nature of the business seems to have been lost in translation she and her husband have
18:09a
18:09plumbing business so there's no water theme park inside well unless the plumbing business has
18:15something to do with the water theme park oh perhaps I think you should just let him have a hold
18:20on I think so too
18:20the passenger is given the good news all right I've spoken with my supervisor and I've also spoken with your
18:28friend and I must say that it is thanks to her import that you're able to be going into Australia
18:35today
18:41welcome to Australia
18:59I will move to the interview room you will move to the interview room despite close scrutiny this German
19:05passenger remains remarkably unfazed officers are in the process of drilling the base of his suitcase to
19:12check for concealments so she what how does she come out an earlier swab of the bag showed
19:27traces of cocaine but officers have suspicions the powder is something else coming out of Dubai it's
19:34more likely heroin so we're just going to get a heroin test kit now for you so you should see
19:43a color
19:44change if it comes up positive it's an immediate positive result it's come up green which means it's
19:57positive for heroin heroin customs and border protection hand the man and his loaded bag over
20:08to the Australian Federal Police to continue the investigation
20:30next week on border security a passenger is removed from a plane and arrested he's denied any knowledge at this
20:38point officers are shocked at what they find in his bags we haven't sent an amount like this for a
20:44long time if you had said yes
20:46this wouldn't have happened a couple facing prosecution make a desperate plea
20:54and a New York graffiti artist thinks he's been framed
21:00it's consistent with cocaine
21:02that's border security
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