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Oppn calls for more answers on Customs corruption

Opposition Customs spokesman, Michael Keenan, says the government must give a full explanation into what's going on at the Customs Service, before any royal commission into allegations of corruption.

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Mr Keenan says suggestions that whistleblower and former Australian Customs officer, Allan Kessing, should be pardoned is a separate issue.

Mr Keenan spoke to the ABC last night after a quarantine officer, two Customs officers, and five members of the public were charged after an investigation into corruption and drug smuggling at Sydney airport.

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Former Australian Federal Police officer, Ross Fusca, who investigated corruption at Melbourne's docks, has also told the ABC the government must hold a commission of inquiry or a royal commission, if Australian Customs officials are found to have been


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