Sex Trafficking To Australia

[david96]

Sex trafficking under the microscope

July 10, 2005

The Sun-Herald

Sex industry figures and brothel workers have been summonsed in an Australian Crime Commission investigation into sex slave trafficking.

The ACC has called up 44 people in NSW, including brothel and karaoke employees, suspect migration agents and women believed to have been trafficked.

Six search warrants have been issued in four states and investigators have seized large amounts of documentation believed to be records relating to organised trafficking operations bringing women to Australia for prostitution.

Eight further notices requiring the handover of more documents have also been served.

ACC chief executive officer Alastair Milroy said more hearings would be held in Canberra and the Northern Territory.

Mr Milroy said the syndicates might now be shifting their operations to other crimes. "I think a lot of the attention ... has raised the level of awareness in the community," he said.

"Those who are involved and are affected by this, as all criminal groups are when you pay them attention, step back and realise this is too difficult and that there are easier ways of making money."

Intelligence indicates that organised crime groups involved in drug trafficking, credit card and identity fraud may also be involved in people trafficking for sexual servitude.

The ACC is to produce a report for its board in September.

Sydney has been identified as the most significant entry point for women being trafficked into Australia, and NSW and Victoria remain the states where most trafficked women have been found and where most of the syndicates operate.

South Korea, Thailand and China were the main source countries, while the cases of most concern involved Thai women.

Although the ACC found the prevalence of Thai women in the sex industry had fallen, there had been a reported increase in the number of South Korean sex workers in Australia.

[snoophound]

Good to see the pressure coming off thais.

Its a lot more sophisticated now,with the Korean and Chinese at the fore.

A recent bust of a parlour in sydney found several Korean girls forced to live on the premises.

The operators are smarter now,and tend to get new slaves by hooking young students at the casino,lending them money and when they cant pay it back forcing them into the parlours.

Its got a little to hard to actually import girls now as many have discovered on this site.

Sex trafficking under the microscope

July 10, 2005

The Sun-Herald

Sex industry figures and brothel workers have been summonsed in an Australian Crime Commission investigation into sex slave trafficking.

The ACC has called up 44 people in NSW, including brothel and karaoke employees, suspect migration agents and women believed to have been trafficked.

Six search warrants have been issued in four states and investigators have seized large amounts of documentation believed to be records relating to organised trafficking operations bringing women to Australia for prostitution.

Eight further notices requiring the handover of more documents have also been served.

ACC chief executive officer Alastair Milroy said more hearings would be held in Canberra and the Northern Territory.

Mr Milroy said the syndicates might now be shifting their operations to other crimes. "I think a lot of the attention ... has raised the level of awareness in the community," he said.

"Those who are involved and are affected by this, as all criminal groups are when you pay them attention, step back and realise this is too difficult and that there are easier ways of making money."

Intelligence indicates that organised crime groups involved in drug trafficking, credit card and identity fraud may also be involved in people trafficking for sexual servitude.

The ACC is to produce a report for its board in September.

Sydney has been identified as the most significant entry point for women being trafficked into Australia, and NSW and Victoria remain the states where most trafficked women have been found and where most of the syndicates operate.

South Korea, Thailand and China were the main source countries, while the cases of most concern involved Thai women.

Although the ACC found the prevalence of Thai women in the sex industry had fallen, there had been a reported increase in the number of South Korean sex workers in Australia.

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[dr_Pat_Pong]

However do the ladies of the night get visa's for Australia ? There must be a back door into Embassies.

[chuchok]

However do the ladies of the night get visa's for Australia ?  There must be a back door into Embassies.

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You making a joke Doc?

[dr_Pat_Pong]

The females going through the front door seem to get knocked back. One wonders how these ladies get the nod.

[chuchok]

The females going through the front door seem to get knocked back.  One wonders how these ladies get the nod. 

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All jokes aside, it's always amazed me how so many "good" girls get knocked back, but so many working girls fly through.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Thick brown envelopes perhaps

[chuchok]

Thick brown envelopes perhaps 

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Well that is exactly what happend at the NZ embassy about a year ago.

[snoophound]

I dont know

depends on the definition of lady of the night.

I know several aus and nz guys that have got bargirls in ,they just made sure they had the evidence of relationship ,more than 6 mths records etc.

One in NZ recently had to pay a 3k bond mainly because he had the evidence but she did not interview well,and they were suspicious.

Still seems to be plenty going into the UK though,via some kind of mafia operation in BKK.

They get a visa and have to "work" off 2m baht.

However do the ladies of the night get visa's for Australia ?  There must be a back door into Embassies.

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You making a joke Doc?

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[david96]

Trafficking into Australia

The number of people trafficked into Australia is unknown. A recent parliamentary inquiry into sexual servitude in Australia was given varying estimates of the number of trafficked women, ranging from 300 to 1000 each year.

The inquiry found that most of the women trafficked into Australia are recruited from South East Asia and China for the sex industry. According to the inquiry report, traffickers facilitate the women's entry to Australia by a range of fraudulent means, including providing visas (usually student or holiday visas), false passports and funds. The women are then sent to brothels around the country where their movements are usually restricted. It is not unknown for women to be forced to repay debts of up to $40 000.

[david96]

It is suspected that there are corrupt immigration officials in Australian Embassies in SE Asia.They are at a level where decisions are made,an applicant has "met the criteria" for a visa. also in the DIMA offices in Sydney and Melbourne where visas can be extended witout the applicant being present and no questions asked.

[mpdkorat]

I would be very interested in knowing a little more on that one. If there is a back door system going into the Brit Embassy. I for one would be very annoyed.

Still seems to be plenty going into the UK though,via some kind of mafia operation in BKK.

They get a visa and have to "work" off 2m baht.

However do the ladies of the night get visa's for Australia ?  There must be a back door into Embassies.

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You making a joke Doc?

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[Old Croc]

The females going through the front door seem to get knocked back.  One wonders how these ladies get the nod. 

These ladies never go near the Embassy. The syndicates supply the complete package .. ticket, bogus/forged passport complete with visa and female escort. It's very organised and corrupt through many levels. They enter through all Oz airports.

[Gazza]

However do the ladies of the night get visa's for Australia ?  There must be a back door into Embassies.

Way before 9/11, girls, through a broker, would hook up with the likes of a teacher and fabricate a relationship story for any embassy interviews. Girls would sleep at the guys apt. for a week or so incase they were asked 'colour of curtains?' 'brand of shampoo?' 'placement of furniture?' etc.

Same kind of set-up for getting girls into Hong Kong, Japan, NZ, Korea, Canada. Except embassies weren't involved.

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[samran]

The females going through the front door seem to get knocked back.  One wonders how these ladies get the nod. 

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I'm not sure how it works with the girls smuggled against their will but there seems to be people willing to go down as well.

Someone I know told me that he was approached to act as a fake boyfriend. A BG he knew who wanted to ply her trade in OZ had some of her associates arrange for everything to be paid for, tickets, visas, payment for his 'services', etc etc. They then acted as if they were in a normal relationship, he approached OZ embassy for visa etc, go it with the proviso that they were going to travel together.

He got cold feet though after things started looking pear shaped.

[Old Croc]

The females going through the front door seem to get knocked back.  One wonders how these ladies get the nod. 

I'm not sure how it works with the girls smuggled against their will but there seems to be people willing to go down as well.

Someone I know told me that he was approached to act as a fake boyfriend. A BG he knew who wanted to ply her trade in OZ had some of her associates arrange for everything to be paid for, tickets, visas, payment for his 'services', etc etc. They then acted as if they were in a normal relationship, he approached OZ embassy for visa etc, go it with the proviso that they were going to travel together.

Authorities are aware of this ploy. If anyone is thinking it may be a good way to make money, my advice is don't.

[350torana]

Makes me angry as genuine applicants for visas to Aussies get the third degree just because they are Thai and female

[snoophound]

Wonder of they will find someone competent this time

Australian immigration head replaced after bungles

11.07.05

SYDNEY - The head of Australia's Immigration Department has quit after a series of bungles which included the wrongful detention and deportation of two mentally ill women, Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday.

An investigation by former Australian police commissioner Mick Palmer into 201 cases of possible wrongful detention and deportation has focused attention on Australia's policy against illegal immigrants.

Australia is a nation built on migrants but has one of the strictest policies against illegal immigration in the world, policies which in part have helped Howard's conservative government to four straight election wins.

"There have been mistakes made, and I'll have more to say about this, and plainly people who are Australian citizens should never be treated as if they weren't," Howard said.

"Nonetheless we do need to make changes," he told Australian television.

Howard said he had accepted the resignation of Immigration Department secretary Bill Farmer, who would become Australia's next ambassador to Indonesia, and appointed former immigration official Andrew Metcalfe as his replacement.

Howard had resisted calls to replace Farmer and Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone but scathing excerpts of a report by Palmer, which has been handed to the government and is due to be released next week, highlighted a catalogue of failures.

Among those were the wrongful detention of mentally ill German-born Australian woman Cornelia Rau in jail and then in a remote outback detention centre for illegal immigrants, treatment which Palmer said exacerbated her illness.

Lawyers for mentally ill Australian woman Vivian Alvarez have said that she had a partially severed spinal cord and had to sign her deportation papers with a thumb print when she was wrongly sent back to the Philippines four years ago.

Farmer apologised in May for failings by his department in some of the cases being investigated by Palmer.

Australia's strict policy against illegal immigration includes detaining illegal arrivals, illegal workers and people who overstay visas, often for years while their cases are heard.

The policy has been harshly criticised by human rights groups but Howard last month softened detention laws to head off a revolt within his government, allowing children and families to be freed from custody while refugee claims are heard.

An Amnesty International report has found that nine out of 10 unauthorised arrivals who sought asylum between July 2002 and June 2003 turned out to be genuine refugees.

Makes me angry as genuine applicants for visas to Aussies get the third degree just because they are Thai and female 

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[udon]

Bill Farmer, who would become Australia's next ambassador to Indonesia,

How on earth can Li'l Johnny give that drongo a job as an ambassador...... Geezus!

and Fat Mandy keeps her job....... incredible!

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[snoophound]

Smacks of the usual Howard Cronyism.

Farmers a brown-nose so a perfect ambassador for our beloved indonesia.

Hopefuly they find a non public service ceo for immigration.

Not that it will be able to change much with Van Millstone still the minister.

Bill Farmer, who would become Australia's next ambassador to Indonesia,

How on earth can Li'l Johnny give that drongo a job as an ambassador...... Geezus!

and Fat Mandy keeps her job....... incredible!

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[dr_Pat_Pong]

Isn't she smashing ?

[Old Croc]

Smacks of the usual Howard Cronyism.

Farmers a brown-nose so a perfect ambassador for our beloved indonesia.

Hopefuly they find a non public service ceo for immigration.

Not that it will be able to change much with Van Millstone still the minister.

The new Immigration man, Andrew Metcalfe (the hoarse whisperer) is very public service.

[Old Croc]

Smacks of the usual Howard Cronyism.

Farmers a brown-nose so a perfect ambassador for our beloved indonesia.

Hopefuly they find a non public service ceo for immigration.

Not that it will be able to change much with Van Millstone still the minister.

The new Immigration man, Andrew Metcalfe (the hoarse whisperer) is very public service.

[Old Croc]

whoops, said it twice. Sorry.

[udon]

I have another one of Mandy and Li'l Johnny if anyone wants me to post it.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Pop the pic for us all to have a giggle John.

[udon]

Say no more

[carlthailand]

LOL now that IS a very funny pic of Johnnie.

Cc

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Mandy and Johnny discussing immigration issues.

[udon]

Mandy and Johnny discussing immigration issues.

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I doubt that he'll ever migrate from under there.....

Edited July 14, 2005 by udon