"But there were too many checks" on smugglers.
"There are no police around to check," one smuggler said as a white Hyundai Tucson with Libyan plates pulled into the lot.
"The smugglers will check the weather, and if they think it's calm enough, they'll go," Estefanos adds.
He said his brother was planning a dangerous journey to Aleppo, with the help of smugglers, to check on the facilities.
A kitschy futuristic video featuring SBS host Julia Zamiro and some costumed Aussies helicoptering the continent to Europe followed, before characters including a koala and some Sydney Swans AFL players performed a musical number on stage, name checking Russell Crowe, cockatoos and budgie smugglers.
While there, check out the winged wheel symbol outside Ye Olde Smugglers Inne on Waterloo Square.
But since it has scrapped most of its border checks, Norway has now become a nation of petty smugglers.
In most cited transactions, the smugglers were paid $100 or $200 per worker; corporate checks were used to pay the men "recruitment fees".
Authorities don't check "whether they're communist or whether they're drug smugglers or had felonies or had been in prison or anything". DeYoung is now on sabbatical and the group has a new chairman, according to its website.
Without this, the opportunities for smuggling are too great, and it should be remembered that checks are based on a risk-management approach, aimed at smugglers rather than regular traders.
The absence of checks on the border have also fuelled fears of a smugglers' charter allowing criminals to supply Britain with tariff-free EU goods through the back door of Northern Ireland.
