Customs

"Quickly, a witch-hunt atmosphere is established around the brothers and the responsible executives of the group. The brothers are followed day and night by police cars. They must surrender their passports and driving licenses to the judicial authorities. They are prohibited from leaving the country. Both their headquarters and their homes are thoroughly searched by Customs. Customs also has a list of forty executives, potentially suspected of complicity, in case they cross the borders with compromising documents or valuables."

"It was a blow, but Gibbs didn’t despair yet. They’d also written to Holyoake, who’d been overseas early in September. He’d discussed the project with Marshall and asked his deputy to be ‘kept in touch with developments’.[9](private://read/01jrsfvkjy84rkprtbz9amfvj8/#rw-num-note-477268-974936905-9) Eventually Marshall relented and the brothers secured a meeting with him, but their charm and enthusiasm weren’t sufficient. Writing a month later, Marshall offered only a flicker of hope that he and Customs Minister Norm Shelton might consider some licences for the Anziel project further down the line if the balance of payments situation improved, allowing for a general relaxation of import controls. But there was no assurance.[10](private://read/01jrsfvkjy84rkprtbz9amfvj8/#rw-num-note-477268-974936905-10)"