How this mum was duped into smuggling drugs — An Innocent Abroad: Part 1 | Australian Story

Dave Leela I can't express how wonderful it was to receive your letter. These past few years have been joyless and I can't apologize enough, but without outside support I can't do anything about it. I remember when mom visited me for the first time. I'm talking about how he was going to Cambodia, he said he was going to meet someone who he thought was very trustworthy and would probably get a good career out of it, so we were all very excited about that, never regret your mistakes, you only regret it. that you didn't try to love you forever and I hope to hear from you again soon your mommy always xoxo but I never thought she would just disappear from our lives completely it was pretty crazy I hadn't heard of Osho's tailor it seemed like he ran away from the system, her case didn't get much press attention, especially in Australia, and really everyone had forgotten her and left her in that Cambodian prison.

She knew it wasn't important, so I didn't think anyone really cared. me being there except the people who loved me I really didn't know if anyone knew I was there it's one of those cases once you find out about Shea's plight you can't let it go, you send a message to your kids. I don't remember when I started talking to the precious Maps because I was talking to him for a long time we talked about work and our work hi

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we talked about an orphanage he visited and donated time and things to think about too I met him and he seemed very nice, the precious Max He was in his 20s, he had an incredible body, he was handsome, he was charismatic, he was a successful businessman, so he really was everything a woman could want, but gorgeous Max was too good to be true. a gentleman who was very busy managing several intimate relationships online at the same time

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guy destroyed my entire life my existence I don't want to show myself because

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are dangerous you know he claimed to be a drug cartel you know people die beautiful Max was

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of an international drug syndicate that operated to entice Australian men and women to travel to Cambodia to bring

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back to Australia, it is more than likely that the syndicate will continue to operate and it worries me because you know who knows who knows who will be next.

I hate being stuck at home but I can't be around a lot of people so I wanted to live in the country in 2000 we moved to ask in the Brisbane Valley, ten and a half acres so it was beautiful out there. Mom was a teacher who taught. a lot of elementary school students and she liked how she got along with the kids and the parents, she also liked her very well at the school she went to, she was known like everyone Sarah T Jo, so she was great. Yoshi had a great passion. for children and teaching, but just for children in general, he was the driving force of it.

A very colorful person. Ershov often dressed very colorfully because she was a very individual person and her teaching style was so creative that it was difficult for her because the curriculum didn't seem to give her a lot of flexibility to be able to use that creativity in her classroom. classes. I think there came a point where she was a square peg in a round hole. My colleagues did not always understand my philosophies and that led to difficulties in the workplace. It was mid-2000 and I left the family unit. Yoshii at the time was taking care of the children and eventually ended up having to leave school.

I think things got very difficult for her and quite possibly she felt quite alone. She lives in the suburbs of Melbourne with her cats, she was in her 40s, had never had a long-term

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ner and was certainly looking for love around November and December 2011. I found myself in a vulnerable position after my affair. with another man who turned out to be a serial datum and then Keer started a conversation with a man called Precious Max on an internet dating site called Tact and they fell in love soon after, she said he was from South Africa and was 34 years old. and he worked in an import-export business.

I didn't question it. I didn't Google it. You did not know. I believed him, so we just talked about life and got serious after a while during the month. who were communicating online, there were several instances where precious Max would ask Kay to send him a laptop or send him some kind of package to Cambodia. Now I think he was doing

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to prepare Kay and test whether she would do it or not. be someone who can be easily convinced to help you more, at first it was just small things like shirts, phones and laptops, it's on me to have the money to send it to Cambodia.

Do not ask. I didn't question it in 2013. Yoshi wasn't in a good place in terms of his life, he was struggling to pay a mortgage, you know, he had a son he was trying to take care of and I'm struggling looking for a new job and wanting to get something. new opportunity, I got to the point where I couldn't cope emotionally anymore and I hope I had a little nervous breakdown and I went to see a counselor but she tried so hard and her priorities are forever kids first and putting food on the table. table and to make sure their needs are met it was 2013, my best friend told me I needed to start meeting people.

He had been alone for a long time for years, just me and the kids, but I didn't do it. I don't feel like I was ready to date, I just wanted to meet people, beautiful. Max starts talking to Yoshi, a tailor, through the tagged website and that conversation quickly moves to email messenger and he starts talking to her in a very similar way to how he has been talking. for K Smith now starts his little game plan that he has used with others, obviously like K Smith, you know, he tries to get the women he is in contact with to sell stolen art and listen, Yoshi egg didn't believe it, she says why I would.

I like that, the amount of time it's going to take me to try to sell this and it's not worth it, you know, don't waste your time, you know, it's clear from the communication I have with K Smith and Yash with the lovely Max. Neither of them is aware of the other's existence. K thought she was in an exclusive relationship that was going to go the distance, but there were times when precious Max would disappear and he wouldn't contact K for days and then come back. With the most obvious and pathetic excuses, there would be things like, "Oh, I'm sorry babe, someone got sick at the orphanage and I had to be there helping for a few days and Kay bought this, I think the reason I kept talking to press".

For so long it was because she had feelings for him. I didn't want to reveal that. I think I was too far away emotionally, mentally, I just backed away. I just wanted to say where GART was in mid-2013. Precious Max and Yoshi's relationship is heating up and he's asking her to travel to Cambodia so they can meet in person. He had never been anywhere. He wanted to go somewhere. He said he would pay the ticket, but he wanted to know. He was a real person, so first of all they asked him to send me a copy of his passport and I told him I didn't want to.

It's like the ticket had to be paid in cash, not with a credit card because you knew there was credit. -card scams, so he agreed to both, she made sure the kids were taken care of while she was away and seemed excited June 27, 2013, flew out of Brisbane and hooked up with precious Mac in Cambodia in Phnom Penh, he came with another man to pick me up and they look exactly like the photo. They took me to a really nice hotel. It was like I was in Asia. You know, I was very happy. I was very happy to watch.

Things there and seeing five people on a motorbike and tuk-tuks and I had a great time. I didn't rule out the possibility of her romance, but at the same time I was in the distance and all that. I had a lot of doubts, it was more about making a friend who I knew was real and I thought I had it. She returns to Brisbane on July 4, 2013, shortly after, about a week or so. Next, Max is messaging K. Smith asked me for her to also travel to Cambodia to meet him in person. Preciosa organized everything from her side.

She sent me money to order my passport and I filled out all the applications. He actually wanted me to get an emergency passport. I asked him about it because it was an emergency and I need to be there the first itinerary came through someone else's name I asked him if he had sent me someone else's itinerary when he sent me my itinerary it said four days I asked him why it was so short and He said he had urgent matters to attend to and could come back later, he works later, lovely and I thought we had become friends.

I told him he wasn't interested in a relationship. I thought he was a wonderful person, but it's him. Too young for me, it's not right, like I found someone good for him. I knew he was looking for a job to do something different. It is clear from the conversations between Yoshi and Precious that he is aware of her financial worries and the pressure on her. raising her two children, so when she tells Max that I don't think this relationship is going to work, he quickly comes up with the idea that she could work in Brisbane for a friend of his in Cambodia importing Cambodian arts and crafts and in the middle.

July 2013 she sends a contract to Yoshi for her consideration. The person she was supposed to work for was a man named mr. Chan at KNN Arts and Crafts, the contract said he would start and not open a craft store in Queensland, that he would be the manager and have an income as a specific income, they wanted to pay six months in advance for the rent on the property. which made me feel very safe, that means there was a compromise there that he is offering, you know the ability to escape the circumstances that she finds herself in and you know that he is truly honored, you know the hooks that she jumped right In the coolest hook he asked me to come. again and I received an email saying that to cover expenses they give me a thousand dollars to come to Cambodia and discuss the job.

My experience living with Yoshi for so many years was that she was very naive. I warned only you. I know, be careful what she's doing and what it was like to accept mom. If this trip is successful and everything is fine, you can come with me next time we go. I was excited because I hadn't been. I hadn't left Australia before. So I thought, "What a great vacation," so he goes back to Cambodia on the second trip. She has taken it to several business meetings. They have shown you that this is a legitimate job offer. She has been taken to the local hospital for a series of medical tests. to make sure she is fit for the job, she had not met mr.

Chen because they told me that his English was not strong and that he would be embarrassed not to understand me or if I didn't understand him then that made sense to me when his program is about to leave Cambodia for the second time Brescia hits us at the last minute, can take a bag to Queensland, somewhere near Brisbane, to deliver to a parts dealer contact, if so? I didn't even think about it, I really thought she was working for this craft store and this was my The new boss and I were happy to do something useful for the new boss on August 19th.

Yoshi travels back to Brisbane from Cambodia and everything is fine, she brings the artifacts and the next day she arranges a meeting with precious Max's friend and she gives him those artifacts just five days after Yoshi returns from his second trip to Cambodia. Kay travels on a plane to see precious Max for the first time. Nothing about flying in the seas. She didn't know anything. About Cambodia I was petrified. I had no idea where to meet him when I got off the plane, but when I came face to face with the projects for the first time I thought he was just as attractive in person as he was online.

We come to you to convert. Buddy Market, I think he's in the middle of Phnom Penh somewhere, he bought me 15 pairs of shoes. I don't think everyone was here the first night we were there. In fact, he took me to a restaurant with his friend and stupidly proposed to me. I said yes, I just thought it was a dream come true. My last night in Cambodia was beautiful. He asked me to carry 12 laptops. Baggett's back with me. They had Cambodian decorations, t-shirts and placemats. She watched those border security shows regularly, so she was. suspicious and she did her own examination of it on the bag, nothing was wrong so she put it back.

I took a look at the other one. I was him. Know? I don't have the same content. Okay for me. Take that at the end of August 2013. Kay returned to Melbourne recently and got freshly painted nails, courtesy of a gorgeous max. I turned on my phone, and when we got to customs, it was just ridiculous and silly, like every time it stopped ringing, it started. called again and who was calling him precious the whole time without her knowing she goes through security carrying a little over two kilos of heroin in her bag and they asked me why it was only a short stay and I said it was a surprise engagement, it was my themselves and uh, they checked all my bags and came back probably ten minutes later to saythat they had already finished.

She was completely stunned by what was in her bag, scared, surprised, not knowing who to trust her on the same day K Smith returns. in Australia and Australia a man also arrives at the Australian airport carrying hidden laptop bags of heroin, which are identical to the bags in which Smith is taken to Australia and is also arrested. The young man had flown to Australia and was found with a similar amount of drugs to which he was lured by a young and attractive 19-year-old woman named Charlene Savarino, the plot was becoming more complicated and the net was becoming wider within a few days. deK Smith and the other man return and are arrested by the Australian Federal Police.

Yoshi tells Precious Max that the budget they have in mind for their Cambodian crafts store will not be enough and that they will have to increase it. His precious budget takes this opportunity to inspire us to travel back to Cambodia to ask the boss for more funds. Originally the plan had been to open the store and that I would take another trip to Cambodia with my children. She seemed very genuine about the company. opinion that it was a business deal and that her children were going to have a great experience getting to see another nation and at that point he was almost convinced that maybe she was on a good deal, so he had even signed the paperwork for her to she got visas for her children but this was an unexpected trip it was not the trip we had planned to take the family did not even think about taking the children on September 14th I arrived back to Cambodia and I expected to be quite beautiful but I He received a girl named Charlene, the French girl, and instead he said she was an employee of Mr.

Chen and I were very excited because she was going to meet a coworker that she said she heard about through Mr. Chen, but he was not there, that last trip on the last day of the year shows the third trip. Charlene meets Yoshi in the lobby of her hotel and provides him with a backpack containing Cambodian fabrics. Charlene gives Yoshi very strict instructions that these fabrics are worth it. a large amount of money and that she should make sure to carry these items in her bag on the plane to her house, then I went up to my hotel room and took out all the pieces, placed them on the bed and took photos.

I also checked the bag because the passport said you have to make your own bag and I couldn't see anything wrong with the bag. Charlene came back to pick me up and took me to the airport and said that. she was waving at me as I walked up the stairs, when I got to the top of the stairs a little Cambodian man came running up behind me and called me by name and asked me to go to a room and I wasn't really surprised. I thought maybe because I had a work visa they look at you differently.

He went straight to the backpack and took out the materials and then he took a Stanley knife and cut the back of the bag and that's when I saw the dust and I was a little shocked, then he asked me who gave me the bag and I told him that Charlene she did and he went straight to a walkie talkie and said to grab her as if to pick her up now that she was still downstairs and carried her into the room. and then he tasted the powder in front of her and it was heroin. They asked her who gave her the bag and she said that precious Max gave her the bag after Charlene is detained by the police, they go to precious Max's house and arrest him.

In the house they found a large amount of drugs and money. They took us all together into a room to test the purity of the drugs and they needed our fingerprints. I had no idea that Charlene and Preciosa knew each other and said something. about having caught her outside the airport and he turned to her and when I told him to never stay with them at the airport, the police spent a whole day telling me that this mr. Chad didn't exist and that there were two Australians, a man and a woman, who had been scammed in Australia the month before this happened to me and that the Cambodians had been notified and were following British and Charlene because their names had been dices.

Cambodian media at the time directly quoted Cambodian police as saying they were working in close coordination with Australian authorities on the arrests of these three individuals. I remember thinking that I was so glad they got caught like that, they stopped me from removing it, and that my kids weren't caught up in all that. I was accused of international drug trafficking and I had no idea what would happen.