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| Subject: OZschwitz customs officers allowed guns through Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:42 am | |
| UP TO two dozen illegal handguns - including some bought by Sydney crime gangs - passed through Port Botany after customs officers falsified paperwork to wrongly claim they had X-rayed the container in which the weapons were hidden.
A six-month Fairfax Media investigation - conducted in association with the ABC program 7.30 - also reveals that Customs is investigating about 100 criminal allegations involving its staff, the highest number in the agency's history, and has received more than 1300 allegations of misconduct since 2008.
It has also emerged that the acting chief executive of Customs, Michael Pezzullo, was frozen out of parts of the federal police investigation of corruption at Sydney Airport because his brother, a customs officer, works and associates with several members of the allegedly corrupt Customs airport cell.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/rogue-customs-officers-allowed-guns-through-20121220-2bpit.html#ixzz2FfMkXoVm
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