A Senate inquiry has heard Australian officials may have breached international and domestic laws if claims they paid people smugglers to return a boat of asylum seekers to Indonesia are true. Image: Department of Immigration and Border Protection Secretary Michael Pezzullo (L) and Operation Sovereign Borders Commander Major General Andrew Bottrell. (AAP)
A Senate inquiry has heard Australian officials may have breached international and domestic laws if claims they paid people smugglers to return a boat of asylum seekers to Indonesia are true. Image: Department of Immigration and Border Protection Secretary Michael Pezzullo (L) and Operation Sovereign Borders Commander Major General Andrew Bottrell. (AAP)
In this report, legal experts also raised concern the federal government's handling of the matter may be putting Customs officials at risk in foreign legal jurisdictions.
