Federal police charge 31-year-old man after drugs allegedly found in shipping container from US at Port Botany
More than $800m worth of meth has been seized in Sydney. It was allegedly hidden inside industrial machinery in a shipping container.More than $800m worth of meth has been seized in Sydney. It was allegedly hidden inside industrial machinery in a shipping container.An anonymous tip-off has allegedly led authorities to nearly $1bn worth of methamphetamine hidden in industrial machinery and destined for the Australian market.
One of the men was released, but the other man, aged 31, was charged with attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug. “ is really a massive amount of drugs, so I think there is very much an organised crime syndicate behind this, a much bigger syndicate that has access to large sums of money.”
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