Hadi Ahmadi - Lengthy jail term urged for people smuggler

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Hadi Ahmadi - Lengthy jail term urged for people smuggler

A Perth judge had been urged to impose a significant jail term on the first person to be extradited from Indonesia to Australia for a people smuggling offence.

Hadi Ahmadi, 35, was found guilty by a jury of helping to organise two boats carrying more than 550 asylum seekers to travel to Christmas Island in 2001.

Ahmadi helped the asylum seekers with travel and accommodation in Indonesia.

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Hadi Ahmadi - People smuggler jailed in Perth court

The first man to be extradited from Indonesia to Australia for a people smuggling offence has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail in the Perth District Court.

Hadi Ahmadi, 35, was found guilty by a jury of helping to organise two boats carrying more than 550 asylum seekers to travel to Christmas Island in 2001.

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Hadi Ahmadi - People smuggler pleas for lighter sentence

A LAWYER representing the first person to be extradited from Indonesia to Australia on people smuggling charges has pleaded with a Perth judge to consider his ill-health and to give a short prison term.

Iraqi-Iranian man Hadi Ahmadi, 35, was found guilty on two charges of illegally assisting 562 asylum seekers to reach Australia on two boats in 2001.