Sunday, June 05, 2005

Ports wide open to drug trafficking / [Australia] The Age, 5 Jun 2005

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William Birnbauer ; Mark Russel ; Phillip Hudson
"Drugs worth more than $1 billion have been seized from shipping containers since late 2002 even though customs inspected only a tiny fraction of the 3 million containers that arrive in Australia each year. An investigation by The Sunday Age shows the seizures could be just the tip of an iceberg centred around drug trafficking networks able to avoid detection because of limited searches or rorting of the importation system."