Amber Heard still facing allegations of perjury in Australia weeks after losing Johnny Depp libel trial

metro.co.uk:

launched by ex-husband Johnny Depp, Amber Heard is still under ongoing investigations amid allegations of perjury in Australia.The actress and her former spouse were the subjects of national controversy – dubbed ‘Terriergate’ – after Heard brought their two dogs, Pistol and Boo, Down Under without declaring the Yorkshire Terriers and without adhering to the country’s strict 10-day quarantine policy.In July 2015, the actress – who was still married to the actor, in Australia filming the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise – was charged with two counts of illegally importing the animals and, after pleading guilty to falsifying travel documents in court, the case was closed, with Heard and Depp forced to share a grovelling public apology on video in April 2016, a month before they split, which was widely mocked at the time.They had their dogs flown back to the US on a private jet after Australia’s agriculture minister at the time, Barnaby Joyce, threatened to have the dogs euthanised unless they ‘buggered off back to the United States’.

An attorney said Heard ‘made a tired, terrible mistake’.However, in a statement this week, the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment confirmed the case was ‘ongoing’ and Heard was still under investigation for perjury.In a statement to Metro.co.uk a departmental spokesperson said: ‘The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is investigating allegations of perjury by Ms Heard during court proceedings for the 2015 illegal importation of two dogs into Australia.’The department had previously said, in October 2021, that ‘the department is seeking to obtain witness statements and once obtained, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions will consider.