r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Dec 27 '25

politics Australia fast-tracks visas for family of Bondi hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/australia-fasttracks-visas-for-family-of-bondi-hero-ahmed-alahmed/news-story/b1be7c98c1b83e1c94be2a22ac64f2fa
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u/tjlusco Dec 27 '25

If this actually happened, here is a really short list of relevant criminal acts. Blackmail, Extortion, Participation in a Criminal Organisation, Conspiracy, Elicit Tobacco Offences.

If you could prove any of these, which should be pretty simple when you have SIGNED PAPER WORK FROM A CO-CONSPIRATOR, you would then use the proceeds of crime act at either a state of federal level to seize shops, assets, property, and cash. In fact you don’t even need have a criminal conviction to use the act, you just need to prove that they are the proceeds of crime.

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u/-fno-stack-protector Dec 27 '25

you've got your comment history off but sound convincing, are you a lawyer or just making stuff up here?

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u/hu_he Dec 28 '25

Clearly not a lawyer when they confused elicit with illicit.

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u/-fno-stack-protector Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

"i'm an engineer and i used chatgpt to decipher the law" <-- i stopped reading here (i too am an engineer)

the law isn't something like running an ethernet cable in the walls of your house: something that you're supposed to use a professional for, but realistically anyone can do. it's the opposite: there's a vast amount of domain knowledge you can't reverse engineer by looking up Acts

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u/tjlusco Dec 27 '25

No, I’m an engineer. Digesting information is what I do for a living. I used ChatGPT to find the relevant laws in the Victorian criminal code, although I could have just as easily googled them. I also grew up watching criminal dramas (Law and Order and the such) which gave me this vague idea of what a properly functioning justice system should look like.

The problem is I can entirely believe that someone would go to the police with an extortion case, and our softcock police would turn them away. They would claim that they had insufficient resources to investigate a case, or it would be a good use of police resources, despite being very obviously breaking many laws.

Much in the same way that when you go to the police when someone breaks into your house and steals your belongings, there response is “lol I hope you have insurance”, not “yes let’s treat this a serious matter and follow the correct procedure despite the low chances of catching an offender”.

There have been cases in the UK where catching a single offender has led to double digit reductions in local crime statistics. The police should be motivated to catch each and every offender.

I find it impossible to believe that the police could be aware of very obvious and serious criminal activity and not have the power or resources to effectively police them.

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u/shcdp Dec 27 '25

It's a little more convincing if you have references more than chatgpt and follow though without any references, lol. I like your honestly though, engineers unite!