Tate,who has amassed 9.1 million followers on X,was arrested in December 2022 near Bucharest along with his brother,Tristan Tate,and two Romanian women.
A Melbourne man is the first person to face trial in Victoria for exit trafficking after allegedly abandoning his wife overseas while on a family holiday.
Fleeing violence and squalid conditions in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh,the persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar is desperate.
Prosecutors wouldn’t comment on whether the passengers’ ultimate destination could have been the US,which has seen a surge in Indians crossing the Mexico-US border this year.
Ayra’s parents took her from Sydney to their home country for a forced marriage when she was 19. She is one of a growing number of Australians falling victim to human trafficking.
To his followers across Europe,he was a guide to a higher state of consciousness. He was also a master manipulator.
Doctors,lawyers,accountants,elected officials,tech executives,military officers and government contractors used the service according to prosecutors.
The federal government will spend $50 million on tougher compliance and permanent investigation teams to stamp out criminal exploitation of migration.
Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.
The influencer was charged in June for alleged human trafficking,rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Almost two dozen women have been intercepted at the border on suspicion of being brought into the country as part of sex-trafficking operations.