The remaining members of the Bali Nine are returning to their home states for the first time following their transfer from an Indonesian prison.
After landing in Darwin on Sunday – touching down on Australian soil for the first time in 20 years – all five remaining members then flew to their home states of Queensland, NSW, and Victoria on Friday morning.
The eight men and one woman were arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle 8.7kg heroin into Australia.
The ringleaders of the drug smuggling plot were Andrew Chan, then 21, and Myruan Sukumara, aged 23 at the time of the arrest.
Accomplices included Matthew Norman, 18, Scott Rush, 18, Michael Czugaj, 19, Si Yi Chen, 20, Tan Duc Than Nguyen, 22, Renae Lawrence, 27, and Martin Stephens, 28.
.Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen arrive in Melbourne after spending over 20 years at the infamous Kerobokan Prison in Bali . Photo: NewsWire/Luis Enrique Ascui
After spending nearly 20 years behind bars in an Indonesian prison, the remaining five members returned to Australia on Sunday, following a top-secret deal between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
The men landed in Darwin on Sunday and spent several days in the Howard Springs quarantine facility, where they stayed until Thursday, ready for their flights back home.
Two of the five members landed in Brisbane in the early hours of Friday morning, another two touched down in Melbourne and the final member landed in Sydney.
Mr Czugaj was reunited with loved ones on Friday morning. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian
Two other remaining members, Mr Chen and Mr Norman boarded a flight from Darwin to Melbourne at midnight, arriving shortly after 6.30am Friday.
Mr Czugaj was spotted boarding a flight from Darwin to Brisbane on Friday morning.
Wearing a mask, blue shirt and khaki trousers, flanked by AFP officers and refusing to speak to media, Mr Czugaj stood at the back of the plane, quietly sipping a beer
Mr Rush was also on the flight home to Brisbane. When he was arrested in 2005, Queensland Police issued a warrant for his arrest for allegedly stealing money from Commonwealth Bank.
It is not known whether he will be taken into custody when he arrives on Queensland soil.
The final member, Mr Stephens, arrived this morning at Sydney Airport and surrounded by AFP officers as he walked off the tarmac and to his car.
– NCA NewsWire