‘Slur on officers’
NZPA Brisbane Queensland customs officers have called for an investigation into allegations that officers at Brisbane Airport were bribed by a major drug syndicate. The allegations were made by the prosecution at the Lancaster trial of Alexander Sinclair (alias Terrence Clarke), who is charged, with others, •with murder and drug offences. “If it’s true, why hasn’t something been done about it?” the president of the Custom
QuQeensland branch, Har Donoghue, said yesterday. “The allegations are not new. This matter came up at least a couple of years ago at the Royal Commission into Drugs,” he said. “It’s an allegation by a person implicated in the drug trade. “It’s a slur on the integrity of all our officers and it lowers the morale, and thus the efficiency, of officers on the job. "We would like an open and thorough investigation, into the allegations to consider and resolve the situation.”
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Press, 20 January 1981, Page 7
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