Feature Request: Ability to import multiple audio tracks

Hello, I'm having a problem with Premiere Pro CC 2014.2. Unfortunately it lacks an important feature that I require if I'm to transition from Sony Vegas Pro. I much prefer Premiere, but I'm stuck using Vegas due to Premiere's inability to import all the audio tracks in my video files. I've seen a few other people around the internet complaining of the same problem and they also feel that it's rather silly for such a major editing software to lack this feature.
Here is an example video file. If you open it in Premiere Pro you'll not be able to hear my microphone, although it's there in Windows Media Player and Sony Vegas.
APB 2014-12-11 18-29-16-795.avi - Google Drive

All I get is "left" and "right". I tried to set the number of channels to 2 but it just ended up with an empty channel.
Here's the audio specs from MediaInfo:
Audio #1
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 11mn 44s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 129 MiB (1%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 10 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 60 ms
Audio #2
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 11mn 44s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 129 MiB (1%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 10 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 50 ms
I've read on several video editing forums that this is just how Premiere is and you simply can't load the audio channel. Also the video file was made in Bandicam. I've also tried Dxtory and had the same problem.
Edit:
Looked at the media properties for the video and saw this:
Audio track 1:
Size is 42.74M bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits
Audio track 2:
Size is 0 bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits
I know for a fact that there's audio data in that track.

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