Federal Court of Australia
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IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY No. G.562 of 1986
GENERAL DIVISION
BETWEEN:
PARK OH HO, LEE JAE
EUN, KO JUNG WOONG,
LEE JONG IN, HAN BUM HOON, SONG BANG JIN, CHONG BONG YOL
Applicants
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MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS
Respondent
EX-TEMPORE REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
BURCHETT J.
In these matters, the applicants were a group of persons desiring to come to Australia from Korea who, on the evidence, arrived some time last July. It appears that the arrangements for their travel purported to be pursuant to the business migration scheme, a scheme operated by the Department of Immigration. In fact, the -arrangements were not pursuant to that scheme, or at any rate not properly pursuant to it. Those arrangements involved the criminal activities of persons
including persons then within the Customs Department. L. am
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informed that charges have been laid against two officers, or
former officers, of Customs, and at least one other person.
Upon their arrival, the applicants were not issued with temporary entry permits. They were placed under arrest and were taken to Villawood Detention Centre. They were interviewed by officers of the department and police officers, and the evidence (which is necessarily incomplete and sketchy, since the matter 1s presented to me as a matter of extreme urgency) indicates that certain proposals were put to them by officers of the department and police officers, suggesting that they could stay in Australia if they were prepared to co-operate and give evidence in the
prosecution,
They agreed to do that, and 1t was indicated to them they could expect arrangements to be made for their release from the detention centre, and for the issue of entry permits. This did not occur, and the evidence indicates that they wrote letters which are consistent, bearing in mind language problems and the problems - apart from language - of lay persons, with the
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