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Russians jailed for smuggling $2.1M ecstasy
Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two Russian nationals from Israel will each spend five years and nine months behind New Zealand bars for trying to smuggle $2.1 million worth of MDMA or ecstasy in a suitcase last year. More >>
Another cocaine smuggler fails to get past Customs
Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Brazilian man was sentenced to seven years and two months in prison today, for carrying 3.4kg of cocaine, worth up to $1.5 million, through Auckland Airport last year. More >>
Record season for Customs at International Airports
Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 10:14 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs processed nearly three and a half million passengers through eGate facilities and counters at airports in a record summer operation. More >>
Crime doesn’t pay for cocaine courier
Tuesday, 20 February 2018, 2:35 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A Brazilian man who agreed to carry cocaine for cash will spend the next eight years and seven months behind bars, following his sentencing in the Manukau District Court. More >>
Cocaine courier’s greed earns him jail time
Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 6:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 47-year-old drug courier sentenced today in the Manukau District Court will spend 8 years and 3 months’ in jail for trying to smuggle 2.6 kilograms of cocaine through Auckland Airport last October. He will be deported after serving his sentence. More >>
Israeli trio sentenced for carrying $3.6m MDMA crystals
Thursday, 21 December 2017, 4:29 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Three Israeli men were sentenced in the Manukau District Court this afternoon for trying to smuggle large packs of MDMA in their false bottom suitcases at the start of the year. More >>
e-Gates Open to Four More Nationalities This Summer
Monday, 18 December 2017, 10:59 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Travellers from France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands now have the green light to use the Customs eGates (formerly known as SmartGate) from today. More >>
eGates Open to Chinese Travellers
Friday, 17 November 2017, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
eGates Open to Chinese Travellers The first Chinese travellers to officially use the Customs eGates (formerly known as SmartGate) have been welcomed at Auckland International Airport. Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri and representatives from the Chinese government ... More >>
Brazilian drug courier to spend ‘holiday’ behind bars
Monday, 13 November 2017, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs arrested a 38-year-old Brazilian man at Auckland Airport yesterday for trying to smuggle three kilograms cocaine, worth up to $1.3 million, in the lining of his suitcase. He appeared in the Manukau District Court this afternoon and remains in ... More >>
$20 million cocaine intercepted in Tauranga
Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 2:08 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A five-month Customs and Police investigation has led to the arrest of four foreign nationals after an estimated 46 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of around NZ$20 million ($450 per gram), was seized from an address in Tauranga early this ... More >>
Fraudster jailed for evading $4 million of alcohol duty
Thursday, 26 October 2017, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 36-year-old businessman was sentenced in the Auckland District Court today to three and a half years’ jail for evading $4 million of duty and GST on imports of Soju – a type of Korean alcohol. Jun Lee, the shadow director of an Auckland-based ... More >>
Czech ‘visitor’ sentenced for $20 million meth in suitcases
Tuesday, 3 October 2017, 5:20 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 42-year-old Czech national was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment in the Manukau District Court today for trying to smuggle 20 kilograms of methamphetamine with a street value of up to $20 million through Auckland Airport last year. More >>
Hong Kong man sentenced for $20 million meth in spatula sets
Friday, 29 September 2017, 11:30 am | New Zealand Customs Service
A Hong Kong national who imported into New Zealand a pallet of spatula sets that contained methamphetamine or ‘P’ with an estimated street value of up to $20,000,000 was sentenced in the Auckland High Court this morning. Ho Hin Gabriel Wan, 24, was ... More >>
Japanese nationals jailed for ephedrine smuggling
Friday, 8 September 2017, 6:48 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Japanese nationals jailed for ephedrine smuggling Two Japanese men, who were part of a drug-smuggling ring importing large quantities of ephedrine hidden in wooden tables, aluminium shelves and plastic cylinders, were sentenced in the Manukau District ... More >>
Two Latvian Passengers Arrested for Cocaine in Suitcases
Wednesday, 6 September 2017, 12:09 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two Latvian nationals appeared in the Manukau District Court after Customs officers located eight kilograms of cocaine hidden in their suitcases. This is Customs’ third arrest at Auckland Airport in three days. More >>
First time visitor arrested for $2.3 million meth haul
Tuesday, 5 September 2017, 12:39 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 44-year-old first time visitor to New Zealand will swap a hotel room for a jail cell after Customs officers found 2.3kg of methamphetamine hidden in a false bottom suitcase. The foreign national, who has appeared in the Manukau District Court, arrived ... More >>
Charges filed for breach of UN Sanctions Against DPRK
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) today filed charges against Pacific Aerospace Limited for three breaches of the United Nations Sanctions (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Regulations 2006, and one charge under section 203(1)(b) of the ... More >>
Drug ring sentenced to 54 years’ imprisonment
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 4:55 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Drug ring sentenced to 54 years’ imprisonment Five members of a drug ring have been sentenced in the Auckland High Court to a combined total of over 54 years’ imprisonment for importing multiple consignments of methamphetamine, GBL, MDMA and ... More >>
Customs wins at Public Sector Excellence Awards 2017
Thursday, 6 July 2017, 12:50 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service is delighted to be named as the winner of the Excellence in Regulatory Systems category of the Deloitte IPANZ Public Sector Excellence Awards 2017. More >>
Eight years’ jail for Brazilian $3.2 million cocaine courier
Thursday, 15 June 2017, 4:52 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Eight years’ jail for Brazilian $3.2 million cocaine courier A 29-year-old Brazilian woman was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment in the Manukau District Court this afternoon, for attempting to smuggle 4.6 kilograms of cocaine in her luggage. ... More >>
