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A Step Forward For Simpler Trade Between New Zealand And Singapore
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 8:18 am | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service has signed an arrangement with Singapore that will help to make trade simpler for exporters. A cooperation arrangement with Singapore Customs and Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) was signed ... More >>
Man Jailed For Smuggling 6 Tonnes Tobacco And Evading $10 Million
Friday, 12 April 2024, 2:02 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 60-year-old Auckland businessman was sentenced in the Auckland District Court today to 28 months’ imprisonment for his role in smuggling 5982 kilograms of loose tobacco from Tonga, evading more than NZD$10 million ($10,300,945) in import and ... More >>
International Travellers Can Ditch Paper And Go Digital
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 10:04 am | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Traveller Declaration (NZTD) is now in full use for both air and maritime travellers arriving in New Zealand, including passengers and crew of international cruise ships. “We know the system works, enabling a more automated and streamlined ... More >>
Customs Investigation Sends Waikato Man Behind Bars On Child Sexual Abuse Material Charges
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 5:10 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
He has been jailed for three years, following conviction on 11 charges of possessing, exporting and making child sexual abuse material following a Customs investigation. More >>
Customs Bags 63kg Of Illicit Drugs At Auckland Airport
Friday, 15 March 2024, 3:05 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has arrested two alleged drug couriers at Auckland Airport, in separate smuggling attempts this week, seizing a total of nearly 63 kilograms of illegal drugs. The two incidents are not believed to be related. On Wednesday (13 March 2024), Customs ... More >>
Child Sexual Abuse Images Lead To Jail Time For Auckland Man
Monday, 4 March 2024, 1:11 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Customs investigation has resulted in jail time for a 33-year-old Auckland man, who was today sentenced to four years and four months’ imprisonment in the Auckland District Court for 32 charges relating to the possession and sharing of objectionable ... More >>
Customs Investigation Results In Jail Time For Wairarapa Man
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 3:20 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Wairarapa man has been jailed to three years and four months’ imprisonment for the import, possession and distribution of objectionable publications, which depict the sexual abuse of children. He was also convicted for making objectionable publications, ... More >>
A Key Organiser In Drug Smuggling Case Jailed For 14 Years
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 11:48 am | New Zealand Customs Service
A 47-year-old man who played an essential role in a failed drug smuggling attempt through Auckland Airport, when the border was shut three years ago, was today jailed for 14-years-seven-months. In May 2020, Customs officers arrested a passenger at ... More >>
Customs Seizes Ecstasy And Methamphetamine From Imported Vehicles
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 2:11 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has seized significant quantities of methamphetamine and MDMA ecstasy following searches of imported vehicles. Customs officers discovered nearly 150 (149.8) kilograms of MDMA and 67 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in panels of vans which had recently ... More >>
Building Customs Drug Detection Across The Pacific
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 3:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Frontline Customs officers and officials from 18 Pacific nations have been welcomed for a week-long training and visit focussed on illicit drug smuggling, which is being co-hosted by the New Zealand Customs Service and Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO). ... More >>
Customs Warns Drug Couriers After Two Are Jailed
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two Brazilian nationals were today sentenced in the Manukau District Court to prison terms after Customs found them trying to smuggle a total of five kilograms of cocaine, worth up to $2.2 million, through Auckland International Airport in separate cases ... More >>
Combatting Online Child Exploitation This World Children’s Day
Monday, 20 November 2023, 11:53 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Every 20 November, the world commemorates World Children's Day, an occasion to promote and celebrate children's rights and welfare. Yet the increasing threat and risk of online sexual exploitation means many children remain vulnerable to abuse. In New ... More >>
Customs Seizes 35-kilograms Of Cocaine In Tauranga
Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 4:20 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has intercepted approximately 35 kilograms of cocaine in a smuggling attempt through the Port of Tauranga, during its routine inspection operation of high-risk vessels and shipments. Customs officers uncovered the cocaine hidden in the engine ... More >>
Rotorua Man Jailed After Customs Investigates Objectionable Videos
Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 2:30 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 32-year-old Rotorua man has been jailed for three years and eleven months, relating to the export and distribution of objectionable material depicting the sexual exploitation of children. He appeared before Rotorua District Court today for sentencing. In February ... More >>
Customs Seizes Methamphetamine At Auckland Airport
Monday, 13 November 2023, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 19-year-old Irish national has appeared in the Manukau District Court today, after Customs officers seized nearly two kilograms of methamphetamine in his luggage on Saturday (11 November 2023). He is charged with importing a Class A controlled drug ... More >>
Customs Arrests Wellington Man For Child Exploitation Videos
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 4:00 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has arrested a Wellington man for his alleged involvement in the online exploitation of children. He is scheduled to appear in the Porirua District Court this afternoon. The 23-year-old faces one charge each of exporting, distributing ... More >>
Customs Seizes Nearly 26 Kilograms Of Methamphetamine At Auckland Airport
Monday, 30 October 2023, 3:35 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs officers have made a record seizure of nearly 26 kilograms of methamphetamine found in the luggage of a Canadian national in the weekend (28 October 2023). The accused faces two charges of importing methamphetamine and one charge of possession ... More >>
Cocaine Seized In Customs Investigation In Tauranga
Monday, 25 September 2023, 3:30 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A recent early morning attempted break-in at the Port of Tauranga has ended with Customs seizing an estimated 26 kilograms of cocaine, with Police arresting three alleged offenders. Port of Tauranga Security contacted Police last weekend (16 and ... More >>
Man Faces Jail Following Customs Investigation Into Online Child Exploitation
Friday, 1 September 2023, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Customs investigation has resulted in jail time for a man involved in the online exploitation of children. A 20-year-old Warkworth man has been sentenced at North Shore District Court today to 30 months’ imprisonment for exporting, distributing ... More >>
Further Sentences Handed Down In Multi-million-dollar Family Drug Smuggling Enterprise
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 9:11 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two members of an Auckland family drug smuggling enterprise were sentenced today, with one receiving more than five years’ jail time. 34-year-old daughter, Anita Muru, and 62-year-old mother, Dayle Muru, were sentenced in the Manukau District ... More >>
