[Australia] Pitiful Malaysian Chinese mother & daughter wrongly jailed for 4 months (nearly kena life imprisonment) after police mistook tea for drugs

[UltimaOnline]

onnie Chong Vun Pui and her daughter, Melanie Lim San Yan, were importing 25 kg of brown sugar ginger tea (Jiu Ji Gong) to sell for a profit of AUD90 (S$88) per box, SMH reported.

However, on Jan. 17, the Australian Border Force (ABF) at Sydney Airport seized two of their shipments as they were wrongly identified as amphetamines.

Following the seizure, the ABF tracked down the shipping address and raided the women's home and found more of the alleged drugs, 7 news reported.

Both Chong and Lim were then charged with commercial drug supply, carrying a sentence of life imprisonment, SMH reported.

In the course of the investigation, they were not granted bail.


https://mothership.sg/2021/11/malaysians-jail-australia-brown-tea-drugs/

 

[countryman]

Should thank their lucky stars that they did not put drug substances inside to make them guilty...

 

[rushifa666]

Wahaha typical chink story. Were they buying every can of milk powder also?