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| Subject: OZschwitz gulag: Poor, desperate people 'smugglers' (read: transport workers) jailed Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:13 pm | |
| Two Indonesian people smugglers sentenced to five years jail after taking about 150 asylum seekers on a tragic voyage to Australia were preyed upon by ringleaders, a court has heard.
At least two of the passengers drowned while 143 others and three crewmates had to be rescued by the Australian Navy when their crowded vessel sank in rough seas off Christmas Island in July 2013.
The captain, Thamrin, was paid just under $2,000 for the risky venture - a sum he considered "an absolute fortune", his barrister Catherine Morgan told Brisbane District Court on Tuesday.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/27251716/poor-desperate-people-smugglers-jailed/ |
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