Human smuggler to be sentenced in Australia

By clifford FaiParik
A Papua New Guinean will be sentenced by the Cairns Supreme Court for smuggling six Chinese across the Papua NewGuinea-Australian maritime border into the Torres Strait Island in Queensland, Cairns district deputy registrar Allan Mash says.
Koloney Bama, 52, from Mabudaun village in South Fly, Western, was convicted by the Cairns District Court for human smuggling and breaching the Commonwealth Migration Act 1958, he said.
Bama will have to appear before the Cairns Supreme Court to be sentenced.
The date for his sentencing is yet to be set.
He was remanded in custody.
Police said that Bama and six Chinese people were arrested by the Australian border administration officials on Horn Island and taken to Thursday Island on Aug 24 last year.
“The Chinese have no records of coming into Papua New Guinea to go to Daru from Port Moresby or any other centre,” police say.
“So they must have come through Indonesia and crossed the Papua New Guinea-Indonesian land border into Western province.
“From there the suspect (Bama) met the six Chinese and brought them across the Papua New Guinea-Australian maritime border on a dinghy resulting in their arrest.”