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Ten millionth traveller uses SmartGate
Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 5:20 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The 10 millionth traveller to pass through SmartGate, Customs’ automated passenger processing system, was greeted by Customs Manager Passenger Operations, Peter Lewis today at Auckland International Airport. More >>
Auckland man convicted for bags of cash
Tuesday, 16 September 2014, 4:09 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 59-year-old Auckland man was convicted, fined $800, and ordered to pay court costs in the Auckland District Court today for attempting to take Chinese Yuan (CNY) 700,000 (NZ$136,452) cash out of the country without declaring it. Customs also seized his ... More >>
Duty-free tobacco limits to drop soon
Thursday, 4 September 2014, 11:42 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs Comptroller Carolyn Tremain says this week travellers will begin to see advertising in airports and in-flight magazines alerting them to the November reduction in duty-free tobacco limits. “From 1 November the duty-free limit for tobacco brought ... More >>
Drug courier sentenced for importing heroin
Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
South African drug courier, Laura Elizabeth Cilliers, was sentenced today in the Christchurch District Court to 7 years and 10 months in prison for importing approximately 1.2 kilograms of heroin. More >>
Hong Kong visitor jailed for ‘P’ stuffed statues
Monday, 28 July 2014, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 25-year-old Hong Kong visitor was today sentenced in the Auckland District Court to 10 years’ imprisonment after Customs linked her to methamphetamine or ‘P’ hidden in imported statues. Ka Po Ching will have to serve at least four years minimum ... More >>
Brazilian tourist behind bars for cocaine smuggling
Friday, 11 July 2014, 5:07 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 20-year-old Brazilian tourist will not see much of New Zealand, after being sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Manukau District Court today for trying to smuggle around $656,000 of cocaine into the country. He will be deported after serving jail ... More >>
Gap year student sentenced to home detention
Friday, 27 June 2014, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 19-year-old man was sentenced in the Hamilton District Court today to 12 months’ home detention and 200 hours community service for importing almost 2.5 kilograms of class C drugs. More >>
Auckland man sentenced for child sexual abuse images
Friday, 27 June 2014, 12:52 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 42-year-old Auckland man was sentenced to 10 months’ home detention and denied name suppression in the Auckland District Court yesterday, for sending and possessing electronic images and movies depicting child sexual abuse. He is appealing the suppression. More >>
Drug swallower arrested for importing $1.2 million of heroin
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A South African woman has been arrested and charged in relation to the importation of approximately 1.2 kilos of the class A drug heroin, with a street value of $1.2 million. The woman arrived in Christchurch on 15 June and was questioned by Customs ... More >>
US drug mule jailed for six years
Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 5:30 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 28-year-old United States national was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the Manukau District Court today, for trying to smuggle four kilograms of methamphetamine into New Zealand. More >>
New Zealand’s leading exporter adopts Trade Single Window
Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 1:34 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has signed up for the Trade Single Window, New Zealand’s new electronic border for trade. Customs Deputy Comptroller Transformation and Technology, Robert Lake, says this is a major milestone in the roll out of the ... More >>
Silver Fern Farms joins Secure Export Scheme
Friday, 9 May 2014, 4:11 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs and Silver Fern Farms have signed a partnership under the NZ Customs Secure Export Scheme (SES), endorsing the exporter’s supply chain security standards. Customs and Silver Fern Farms executives met at the Silver Fern Farms head office ... More >>
Settlement for outstanding duty reached
Friday, 2 May 2014, 1:08 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service and Terminals (N.Z.) Limited have reached an agreement over the payment of additional duty on butane blended petrol. The settlement follows the Supreme Court ruling last year that the process of blending butane with petrol ... More >>
Collaboration stops drugs from crossing borders
Thursday, 17 April 2014, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Collaboration between Hong Kong and New Zealand Customs has stopped millions of dollars worth of drugs coming into New Zealand this year, with a number of seizures and arrests in both countries. More >>
Young man sentenced for importing objectionable material
Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A foreign national has been sentenced in the Manukau District Court today, following his arrest at Auckland International Airport for importing objectionable material. More >>
Jail instead of Uni
Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 4:44 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
20-year-old student Benjamen Belmont will be spending several semesters behind bars after he was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months’ imprisonment for the importation and possession for supply of class A and B drugs in Palmerston North District Court ... More >>
Drugs in baby grand pianos
Thursday, 20 March 2014, 4:33 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two Chinese student flatmates have been sentenced to three years and four months’ imprisonment for their roles in importing Contac NT hidden inside miniature grand pianos. More >>
High tech fight at the border
Thursday, 13 February 2014, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs says that advances in technology have made it easier for offenders to find, store, and share objectionable material such as child sexual abuse images. Customs Manager Border Operations, Shane Panettiere says that Customs is responding to this ... More >>
Customs warns drug couriers after $7.8m meth arrest
Monday, 20 January 2014, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two foreign nationals appeared in court today after Customs intercepted methamphetamine or ‘P’, totalling around 7.8kg, in separate incidents at Auckland Airport over the weekend. A 28 year old United States national, who arrived from Los Angeles on ... More >>
Flying high: Cocaine in neck pillow leads to two arrests
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 11:51 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Flying high: Cocaine in neck pillow leads to two arrests Two men appeared in court today in connection to around one kilogram of cocaine found by Customs inside a neck pillow, and internally concealed by a passenger, at Auckland Airport on Sunday morning ... More >>
