Australia’s deputy prime minister has threatened US actor Johnny Depp with perjury charges in a new instalment of the “war on terrier”.<\/p>\n
The Pirates of the Caribbean star and then-wife Amber Heard failed to declare their dogs to Australian customs after arriving by private jet in 2015.<\/p>\n
Ms Heard escaped conviction and the pair released an unusual apology video.<\/p>\n
But legal documents filed in a US court allegedly show Mr Depp was “fully aware” he was breaking Australian laws.<\/p>\n
His former business managers, The Management Group (TMG), claimed the actor had “pressured one of his long-term employees to ‘take the fall’,” in papers obtained by People.<\/p>\n
‘It is called perjury’<\/strong> “If the allegation is correct, there’s a word for that – it is called perjury,” Mr Joyce told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n “We’re an island continent and we take biosecurity very seriously and it doesn’t matter if you think that you’re Mr Who’s Who of Hollywood, you’re going to obey our laws.”<\/p>\n Mr Joyce made international headlines two years ago when he said the dogs – Pistol and Boo – should “bugger off back to the United States” or risk being put down.<\/p>\n Mr Depp fired back referring to Mr Joyce as some kind of “sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia”.<\/p>\n Last year, Ms Heard pleaded guilty to falsifying her immigration papers and was placed on a A$1000 (\u00a3600, $760) one-month good behaviour bond.<\/p>\n Her lawyer argued the actress thought Mr Depp’s assistants had already sorted out the dogs’ travel documents for their journey to Queensland two years ago.<\/p>\n Australia’s tough quarantine laws are designed to keep disease at bay.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Mr Depp apologised for remarks which appeared to threaten US President Donald Trump during a speech at the UK’s Glastonbury Festival.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia’s deputy prime minister has threatened US actor Johnny Depp with perjury charges in a new instalment of the “war on terrier”. The Pirates of the Caribbean star and then-wife Amber Heard failed to declare their dogs to Australian customs after arriving by private jet in 2015. Ms Heard escaped conviction and the pair released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[8660,623,2985],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAustralian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce subsequently hinted that the government may reinvestigate Depp.<\/p>\n