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| Subject: Rights violation: 'People-smuggler' (transport worker) jailed in malevolent OZschwitz court Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:00 pm | |
| A PEOPLE-SMUGGLER who promised to ferry asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia will remain behind bars until at least 2018.
SAID Mir Bahrami appeared in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court for sentencing on five people-smuggling charges, two of which involved up to 12 passengers. Judge Colin Charteris said Bahrami, who operated under a number of aliases, arranged for would-be migrants to be loaded onto unseaworthy fishing vessels that were bound for Australia but were ultimately intercepted by authorities.
Several of the passengers, who each paid several thousand dollars to secure passage to Australia, have since been granted refugee status.
"I accept that the offender was motivated by financial gain - and in the scheme of things, that financial gain was considerable," Judge Charteris said on Friday
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/people-smuggler-jailed-in-sydney-court/story-e6frfku9-1226993585899 |
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