Definitely feels like something is missing from the story. Where did their 2 phones and drug selling claims come from?
Did he have clearance/permission to have the ashes in his bag? The TSA has rules around transporting ashes:
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/cremated-remains
Not enough info to know what is true and what isn’t really. If he’s telling the truth it’s a shitty and unfair situation for him and something needs to change.
Also most people don’t seem to know but the australian government also gives border security the ability to confiscate your phone/devices and even make backups of them, and arrest you if you refuse to unlock them and hand them over.
If you want a fully digital copy just buy the digital copy. Those aren’t going anywhere.
These ones are for games that were sold at retail, in a box, but just had a digital code that made it no different to buying the game digitally. They had no reason to exist. Now they do. They give these games some of the benefits of physical copies.
They don’t stop working once servers are shut down btw. 100% false. You only ever need an internet connection the first time you run the game after downloading it. Source: Nintendo directly:
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68415/~/nintendo-switch%26nbsp%3B2-game-key-card-overview