The Age: Real Estate Directors charged over marijuana crop

GreenMedallion said:
It is surprising that the firm hasn't taken down the alleged offenders staff pages

http://www.barryplant.com.au/thomastown/index.cfm?pageCall=staffMember&staffID=27436
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Whatever the truth of the allegations, the number of spelling and wording errors in the above appears to indicate someone who doesn't check their work or asks another to do so.

Barry Plant website said:
Con's total committment to providing the highest level of customer service combined with his honest advise, means that his clients can rest assure they are in safe hands.
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Three in the one sentence above is beyond carelessness. Especially when
Barry Plant website said:
Con's fastidious attention to detail
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is claimed.

While acknowledging that agents often speak better than write, stuff like this can only make one look a real dope.
 
spiderman , why would one bother using spell check when there was so much $ to be made.

Pretty dumb having illegal immigrants as house sitters. If I was running that show, I'd be very careful as to whom I select to house sit. They probally got dobbed in someone associated woth the housesitters.
 
Their businesses have been "rolled up".

They are "flying" with business.

Their services give you a "buzz".

"Budd" works there.
 
datto said:
Pretty dumb having illegal immigrants as house sitters.
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From the article:
Police said six others, including five believed to be Vietnamese illegal immigrants, were also charged.
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Well, I believe these are not your run-of-the-mill illegal immigrants but participants in a global criminal scheme run by well organised syndicates. The scheme is pretty well known in Vietnam (thousands of people have fallen victim to it) and runs like this:

Some poor farmers happen to get into huge debt (to buy land or finance a crop) and are on the brink of defaulting. The lending entity (generally a shady business run by loan sharks in collusion with corrupt officials) makes an offer that’s too good to refuse: the farmers would get a “well-paid” job in a foreign country that would allow them to pay off their debt in a flash but they’d have to borrow more money to pay for visas, air fares, middle men, etc… The extra debt can be bigger than the original one, but they’re now so desperate that they have no other choice than to accept.

Visas are arranged through the Party “sponsor”. The farmers are flown to Russia where they’re handed over to some local gangs. Their passport are confiscated until, they’re told, final destination (UK in most instances). Now with no passport, no language and very little money, they are at the mercy of their “captors” who may detain/beat/rape/rob them as much as they please.

From there they’re sent on a journey through Eastern Europe hidden in trucks or private cars, illegally crossing borders till they arrive in Germany. More illegal transport to France where they’re finally offloaded hungry, cold, penniless and lost. They have to fend for themselves, squatting or living in squalid tent camps in the middle of forrests. They now must find a way to cross the Channel into England.

Most fail to do so and are sent back home. The few who succeed find themselves, again, at the mercy of drug gangs whose business is to grow marijuana in rental homes. Our poor farmers are employed as crop caretakers, earning a pittance in their promised “well-paid” jobs and running the risk of being raided by police at any time. They’re generally the only ones to get caught, not the local gang leader nor the mastermind sitting in their official air-conditioned office somewhere in Vietnam.

While all this is taking place, the farmers’ homes in Vietnam would have been seized by the lender and the families evicted. It’s all part of the plan…

A few years ago the UK used to be the main target for this traffic, however more recently it has spread to Canada, the US and now, seemingly, Australia…

It needs to be said however, these illegals have nothing in common with the Vietnamese boat people who fled their country in the 70s and 80s to escape communist persecution.

Back to the story… it’s likely these two REA’s have been duped by the drug dealers. But they were probably too careless to find out...
 
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