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Asylum seekers accused of smuggling millions of dollars worth of drugs into Australia


FOUR refugees who fled the Middle East for a safer life in Australia allegedly shipped millions of dollars of drugs into Sydney as part of a crime syndicate linked to an ex-Olympian.

Three of the former Iranian refugees now face indefinite detention if convicted and jailed for more than a year, because Iran will not take them back, meaning we have to keep them.

According to court documents, the plan was cooked up at the now-closed Malibu Lounge Cafe at Westfield Liverpool under the orders of the cafe’s chef and financier, Green Valley man Saeid Ghorbanpour, 34.

Former Australian Olympic boxer Anoushirvan Nourian, who was also to have represented Iran at the Sydney Olympics — only to be banned over steroids — has been charged along with Ghorbanpour over a second drug ­importation.

Three of the four refugees had moved to Liverpool after being ­accepted by Australia.

The fourth, who was living in Victoria on a protection visa, survived the December 2010 Christmas Island disaster in which 48 asylum seekers were killed when their boat smashed into rocks.

Despite the men originally fleeing the war-torn Middle East, the plan allegedly saw two of the refugees return there to organise a 90kg shipment of tea leaves laced with pseudoephedrine to be smuggled into Australia.

Arash Maleki and Omid Nourizad Eh Haris allegedly flew from Sydney to northern Iraq to arrange the shipment of drugs. Amin Maleki allegedly helped unpack the shipment at Storage King, Moorebank.

Authorities have requested the Christmas Island sinking survivor not be named for legal reasons and threats to his family in Iran.

He was allegedly ­recruited to put the shipment in his name and collect it from Port Botany.

Police allege the importation originated from “Iran, Iraq and Dubai” and was also “found to have links to the United Kingdom”, the court documents said.

The three refugees have been charged with ­numerous counts of supplying and possessing large commercial quantities of a prohibited drug.

However Arash Maleki fled Sydney on a flight to Dubai the day before police raided several Western Sydney addresses on August 15, 2014.

A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

A spokesman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said if the men were jailed for 12 months or more they would be deported under the government’s character test laws — but Iran does not accept deported people, meaning they would face indefinite detention.

In Central Local Court last Wednesday, former boxer Nourian pleaded guilty to conspiring to import a commercial quantity of pseudoephedrine into Australia between February 2014 and February 2015.

Nourian, 43, of Guildford, was a medal hope for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the light welterweight division. He came ninth.

He was set to box for Iran at the Sydney Olympics but was banned after testing positive for steroids.

Ghorbanpour was arrested on February 14, 2015. He was refused bail on November 5 and has pleaded not guilty to supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs.

He is facing charges in relation to a second importation of tea leaves laced with pseudoephedrine. He is listed to face Parramatta District Court on December 10 where he is expected to enter a plea to supplying a large commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.

Police allege Ghorbanpour “was an active participant of an international criminal syndicate” that “not only imported a vast quantity” of ­illegal drugs, but also supplied them, according to documents tendered at his bail application.

He and the others were arrested following an investigation by the NSW Firearms and Organised Crime Squad known as Strike Force Crosswise.

Ghorbanpour allegedly gave Arash Maleki and Eh Haris $10,000 for their plane tickets to Iraq, the documents stated.

Police allege that at a meeting with Ghorbanpour at the Malibu Lounge in May 2014, one of the men had ­expressed fear about being searched at Sydney airport.

Ghorbanpour ­allegedly said “we have nothing to worry about because if we were under investigation we would have been ­arrested by now”, court documents stated.

The shipment arrived in Sydney in July 2014 disguised among 132 boxes containing 1.3 tonnes of tea.

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SAEID GHORBANPOUR


* Chef and had financial interest in Malibu Lounge at Westfield Liverpool

* Police allege he was a principal of the drug operation and a participant in an international crime syndicate that imported and then supplied the drug

* Police allege he was a chief in the operation that saw refugees to Australia mobilised in a pseudoephedrine smuggling syndicate

ANOUSHIRVAN NOURIAN

* Former Olympic boxer for Iran and then Australia.

* Thrown out of the Sydney 2000 Olympics when competing for Iran after testing positive to steroids prior to the opening of the Games

* Became a naturalised Australian in February 2004

* Competed for Australia in the 2004 Athens Olympics and was considered a medal prospect

* Knocked out in the second round of competition and finished 9th out of 27 competitors

AMIN MALEKI

* Came to Australia as a refugee from Iran

* Police allege he helped unpack jars containing pseudoephedrine laced tea leaves when they arrived in Sydney

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Reply #1 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:08am
 
Cont'd...

ARASH MALEKI

* Brother of Amin

* Came to Australia as a refugee from Iran

* Police allege he flew to the Middle East to organise a shipment of pseudoephedrine laced tea leaves to be smuggled into Australia

* Fled Australia before police made arrests

* Still at large with a warrant out for his arrest

THIRD REFUGEE

* Police allege he was recruited to pick up the shipment of pseudo once it arrived in Sydney

* Came to Australia from Iran in 2010 as an asylum seeker and was placed on a protection visa and settled in Victoria.

* Was a survivor of the Christmas Island asylum seeker boat disaster where 48 people were killed

OMID NOURIZAD EH HARIS

* Allegedly organised the shipment

* Flew to Iraq

* Refugee from Iran

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/drug-mule-refugees-asylum-seekers-accu...
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Reply #2 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am
 
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers. How very "humanitarian" of you.
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Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers. How very "humanitarian" of you.



Aussie welterweight goes down in Athens
20 Aug 2004
Australian boxer Anoushirvan Nourian has lost his round of 16 bout of the welterweight (64kg) competition in Athens overnight.

The Iranian-born Nourian, who became an Australian citizen earlier this year, was beaten by Italian Michele di Rocco 33 points to 25.

He had been ranked fourth in the world going into the Olympic competition.

In other results, Willy Blain of France defeated Alexander Maletin of Russia (28-20), Ionut Gheorghe of Romania beat Turkey's Mustafa Karagollu (28-19) and Boris Georgiev of Bulgaria downed Rock Allen of the United States (30-10).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-08-20/aussie-welterweight-goes-down-in-athens/20...

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Reply #4 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 6:53am
 
____ wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 6:39am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers. How very "humanitarian" of you.



Aussie welterweight goes down in Athens
20 Aug 2004
Australian boxer Anoushirvan Nourian has lost his round of 16 bout of the welterweight (64kg) competition in Athens overnight.

The Iranian-born Nourian, who became an Australian citizen earlier this year, was beaten by Italian Michele di Rocco 33 points to 25.

He had been ranked fourth in the world going into the Olympic competition.

In other results, Willy Blain of France defeated Alexander Maletin of Russia (28-20), Ionut Gheorghe of Romania beat Turkey's Mustafa Karagollu (28-19) and Boris Georgiev of Bulgaria downed Rock Allen of the United States (30-10).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-08-20/aussie-welterweight-goes-down-in-athens/20...

Re-writing history A.P?


True. The Greens are just as much to blame as Labor - they did after all vote with Labor on dismantling the Pacific Solution.
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Reply #5 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 7:04am
 
So if one came in under Howard, did others?


And I thought conservatives here said refugees came in and sucked off welfare. These ones are showing entrepreneur skills, and A.P knocks them for it.

Now these people will likely be locked up forever at everyone's cost.
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Reply #6 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 7:28am
 
____ wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 7:04am:
So if one came in under Howard, did others?


And I thought conservatives here said refugees came in and sucked off welfare. These ones are showing entrepreneur skills, and A.P knocks them for it.

Now these people will likely be locked up forever at everyone's cost.


You call drug smuggling "entrepreneurial"? What is wrong with you?
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Reply #7 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:16am
 
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 6:53am:
____ wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 6:39am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers. How very "humanitarian" of you.



Aussie welterweight goes down in Athens
20 Aug 2004
Australian boxer Anoushirvan Nourian has lost his round of 16 bout of the welterweight (64kg) competition in Athens overnight.

The Iranian-born Nourian, who became an Australian citizen earlier this year, was beaten by Italian Michele di Rocco 33 points to 25.

He had been ranked fourth in the world going into the Olympic competition.

In other results, Willy Blain of France defeated Alexander Maletin of Russia (28-20), Ionut Gheorghe of Romania beat Turkey's Mustafa Karagollu (28-19) and Boris Georgiev of Bulgaria downed Rock Allen of the United States (30-10).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-08-20/aussie-welterweight-goes-down-in-athens/20...

Re-writing history A.P?


True. The Greens are just as much to blame as Labor - they did after all vote with Labor on dismantling the Pacific Solution.

So did the Libs.
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Reply #8 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:37am
 
Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:16am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 6:53am:
____ wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 6:39am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers. How very "humanitarian" of you.



Aussie welterweight goes down in Athens
20 Aug 2004
Australian boxer Anoushirvan Nourian has lost his round of 16 bout of the welterweight (64kg) competition in Athens overnight.

The Iranian-born Nourian, who became an Australian citizen earlier this year, was beaten by Italian Michele di Rocco 33 points to 25.

He had been ranked fourth in the world going into the Olympic competition.

In other results, Willy Blain of France defeated Alexander Maletin of Russia (28-20), Ionut Gheorghe of Romania beat Turkey's Mustafa Karagollu (28-19) and Boris Georgiev of Bulgaria downed Rock Allen of the United States (30-10).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-08-20/aussie-welterweight-goes-down-in-athens/20...

Re-writing history A.P?


True. The Greens are just as much to blame as Labor - they did after all vote with Labor on dismantling the Pacific Solution.

So did the Libs.


BUZZ!!! Wrong again!!! The Coalition voted AGAINST dismantling the Pacific Solution.
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Reply #9 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:47am
 
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers.


Do they have previous convictions for drug smuggling?

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greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:47am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers.


Do they have previous convictions for drug smuggling?



No one knows because they destroy anything that can identify them.
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Reply #11 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:55am
 
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:50am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 8:47am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 29th, 2015 at 5:09am:
Well done, Labor. You've let in a bunch of drug smugglers.


Do they have previous convictions for drug smuggling?



No one knows because they destroy anything that can identify them.


Do you have any evidence that proves these men destroyed anything that could identify them? No.

So, you can't honestly say that "Labor let in a bunch of drug smugglers".

They let in some refugees, who have now been accused of committing a crime.

Not much of a story here.
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Reply #12 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 9:00am
 
ap.. I refuse to JUDGE all by the few...I really do.. it is this type who give ev eryone a bad name..

we read where the Paris murderers took drugs before the event....so maybe that how ISIS bribes their bombers to do the despicable.....we dont get close enough to see their eyes do we??>.

did we cheer on the OLYMPIC boxer by any chance????...

was he one of our HEROs.. Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

how many ex OLYMPIANS have been charged the same AP....... all HEROS at one stage... Angry Angry

do we judge all OLYMPIANS the same?.
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Reply #13 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 9:16am
 
What a joke. Thanks for the scum do-gooders.
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Reply #14 - Nov 29th, 2015 at 9:33am
 
From article- Despite the men originally fleeing the war-torn Middle East, the plan allegedly saw two of the refugees return there to organise a 90kg shipment of tea leaves laced with pseudoephedrine to be smuggled into Australia.


They were so scared they returned???? Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin You do-gooders are absolute suckers and chumps. Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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