‘Black flight’: Charter flight boss charged over alleged plot to smuggle Australians into Indonesia

Grant Schultz, 43, has been charged with people smuggling after two men – without visas or passports – were allegedly discovered by Indonesian immigration authorities on board a small plane in the province of South Papua.


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