ATO assistance during COVID-19
The Deputy Comptroller General (DCG), Bradley Armstrong , who heads the ABF Customs Group, which has been given the responsibility of taking the deferral of…
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ABF Detector Dog Program
We’re sharing the details of an amazing program that allows you to be come a foster carer for an Australian Border Force (Detector dog) puppy….
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Record $148 million heroin bust made at UK port
Does container shipping have a drug problem? After a string of busts in the U.S. in recent months, attention has now switched to the U.K.,…
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ABF Examinations
We’ve highlighted the need for the Australian Border Force (ABF) to conduct holds on imported containers into Australia previously. This is necessary and integral, and…
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Clothing used to conceal half a tonne of ‘ice’ in container
Four men have been charged and methylamphetamine (ice) with a street value of almost $400m has been seized after a joint investigation involving New South…
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ABF tightens the screws on aluminum dumping
The Australian Border Force (ABF) has issued duty demands of more than $15 million to combat duty evasion on aluminum from China. The ABF announced…
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Biggest ever onshore ice seizure in Australia
Australian authorities have made the biggest ever onshore seizure of the drug ice, equivalent to almost 16 million drug deals. Australian Border Force (ABF) officers…
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1.3 tonne ephedrine seizure; four arrests in Melbourne
A joint multi-national investigation into an organised crime syndicate has resulted in the arrest of four men and the seizure of 1.3 tonnes of the…
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Italian Treatment Providers for BMSB
Three Italian BMSB treatment providers have been now been suspended by the Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. This is understood to be resulting…
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Police find drugs in container full of bananas
New Zealand’s largest cocaine seizure – approximately 190 kilograms of cocaine – was secreted in a shipping container of bananas and was intercepted in New…
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