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Smuggler Payment Feature

The Rote people smuggler being questioned by police
The government has questioned the credibility of people smugglers claiming to have been paid off. (AAP) Source: 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.


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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.


Legal experts also raised concern the federal government's handling of the matter may be putting Customs officials at risk in foreign legal jurisdictions.


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