7NEWS: Queensland farmer jailed for turning ‘blind eye’ to cannabis operation on his properties
Instead, it became part of a multimillion-dollar cannabis operation run by a crime syndicate.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Police find massive cannabis-growing operation during raid of New Beith property in 2018.Dang was “lent on” by “dangerous individuals” before his two properties were taken over and used for cannabis production, Brisbane District Court was told. In October 2018, police searched Dang’s New Beith and Marsden properties as part of an investigation into cannabis production and trafficking in southeast Queensland.
At New Beith, 638 cannabis plants weighing 130.5kg with an estimated value of more than $650,000 were seized.An extensive and complex cannabis production system was uncovered, the court heard.The two properties were among six overall targeted during the police investigation which seized a total of 2416 plants estimated to be worth more than $3 million, with 14 people charged.
“You have a situation of a person who was obviously identified by those involved in this scheme because of not being in trouble with the police and they have basically lent on him to rent the premises and he has kept away,” he said.
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