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On 8 October 2004, Corby, her brother and two friends, flew from Brisbane to Bali transiting in Sydney. It was her first visit to Bali in four years having previously visited several times to visit on stopovers between Australia and Japan to visit her sister, Mercedes.
Passing through customs upon her arrival at Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Corby was apprehended by customs officers. She was found to have 4.2 kg (9.3 lb) of cannabis in a double plastic vacuum sealed plastic in her unlocked body board bag. Customs officer Gusti Nyoman Winata said that she tried to prevent him from opening the compartment of the bag containing the cannabis. Corby denied this during the trial, saying she originally opened the bag after being asked by Winata whose bag it was. Corby said she and the customs official had difficulty understanding each other. No CCTV footage of this interaction was retrieved or preserved.
The four bags belonging to Corby and her companions were not weighed individually at Brisbane Airport, with a total weight of 65 kg being taken instead. The Bali police and customs did not record the weight of the bags, despite requests from Corby for them to do so.
Corby stated that she had no knowledge of the drugs until the body board bag was opened by customs officers.
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