A NIGERIAN detainee at the Villawood Detention Centre is accused of running an international drug ring from inside the centre while fighting a ­deportation order. 
 
Police claim Drichuckuv Nweke orchestrated a major cocaine importation into Sydney using several mobile phones while detained at Villawood. Nweke is a convicted drug dealer who was jailed in 2005 for importing almost 2kg of cocaine into Australia in children’s books.

He was arrested at Villawood on Wednesday night, with police seizing mobile phones and paperwork which they allege were used to organise the importation of 5kg of cocaine from South America.

The cocaine was allegedly found in the luggage of a 60-year-old American man at Sydney Airport on Tuesday night on a flight from Santiago. He was arrested by the Australian Federal Police at the ­request of the NSW Organised Crime Squad.

The man is allegedly an ­associate of Nweke, who is ­behind bars after being refused bail on drug charges in Bankstown Court yesterday.

Police claim Nweke is part of a syndicate linked to 140kg of ice that was seized in Campsie two weeks ago, for which four men were arrested.

“This investigation highlights the very insidious nature of transnational organised crime,” Detective Superintendent Scott Cook said.

Nweke, 39, has been engaged in a long-running battle with the Department of Immigration to avoid deportation.

The department tried to ­deport him after his conviction for the importation of 1.873kg of cocaine from New Zealand inside the covers of children’s books in 2003.

He was jailed for 10 years in 2005 with a non-parole period of six-and-a-half years, which was to end in September, 2011.

Before he was released from jail, Nweke beat a deportation order after he appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Before a visa can be cancelled on the ground of character, consideration must be given to the welfare of any children affected.

Apart from his drug convictions, Nweke also has been given separate drink driving, driving without a licence and other driving convictions since he arrived in Australia on a three-month business visa in September, 2000.

Three years later he was granted a permanent spousal visa after his initial request for a refugee protection visa was knocked back by Australian immigration officials.

His visa was eventually cancelled last year but he has ­appealed the decision.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/nigerian-detainee-drichuckuv-nwek...

what makes me sick is the laws of this country allowing this man to flaunt everything we do in our face...can you imagine for one moment anyone getting this kind of treatment in Nigeria...or Bali??..like hell you would..we are a joke its time for change..

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

you can bet this bloke married an Aust.. and has the proverbial children...

guess what

I <DONT CARE.. they are his responsibility...not mine.

LOL and he came here on a business visa, so probably not by boat.

So now we know what type of business his visa was for...

The department tried to ­deport him after his conviction for the importation of 1.873kg of cocaine from New Zealand inside the covers of children’s books in 2003.


He was jailed for 10 years in 2005 with a non-parole period of six-and-a-half years, which was to end in September, 2011.

Before he was released from jail, Nweke beat a deportation order after he appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Before a visa can be cancelled on the ground of character, consideration must be given to the welfare of any children affected.

John Smith wrote on May 2^nd, 2014 at 9:34am:

Bump, does that say September 2000 John? ROTFLMAO

I wonder why armpit ran away from this one so quickly?

sir prince duke alevine wrote on May 2^nd, 2014 at 10:56am:

rabbitoh08 wrote on May 2^nd, 2014 at 11:54am:


thats it .... cut their budget to the cost of producing a series of playschool ....

oh wait a minute, then we'd just end up with another parliament.