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The Age
Tip-off leads to $5m ecstasy haul
September 19, 2005 - 2:47PM
Police have seized $4.7 million worth of ecstasy after a phone tip-off alerted them to more than 24 kilograms of the tablets hidden in furniture shipped from Belgium.
Three men will face Melbourne Magistrates Court this afternoon charged with importing and aiding the importation of a commercial quantity of a prohibited substance.
Customs officers found the 115,000 tablets at the Melbourne Container Examination Facility, police said.
The officers drilled a small hole in the furniture and extracted some powder, which tested positive to illegal narcotics.
Federal police then monitored the cargo as it was delivered to an address in Carnegie, in Melbourne's south, yesterday.
"Information received by the customs hotline number led to the examination of a shipping container of furniture from Belgium," Australian Federal Police and customs officials said in a joint statement issued today.
"Further information was later received from Belgian Customs confirming the shipment was suspicious."
Police and customs executed search warrants at four Melbourne addresses yesterday and seized large sums of money and the furniture.
A 64-year-old Nunawading man, 33-year-old East St Kilda man and 35-year-old Carnegie man have all been charged
Peace LOve and Mungbeans
Tip-off leads to $5m ecstasy haul
September 19, 2005 - 2:47PM
Police have seized $4.7 million worth of ecstasy after a phone tip-off alerted them to more than 24 kilograms of the tablets hidden in furniture shipped from Belgium.
Three men will face Melbourne Magistrates Court this afternoon charged with importing and aiding the importation of a commercial quantity of a prohibited substance.
Customs officers found the 115,000 tablets at the Melbourne Container Examination Facility, police said.
The officers drilled a small hole in the furniture and extracted some powder, which tested positive to illegal narcotics.
Federal police then monitored the cargo as it was delivered to an address in Carnegie, in Melbourne's south, yesterday.
"Information received by the customs hotline number led to the examination of a shipping container of furniture from Belgium," Australian Federal Police and customs officials said in a joint statement issued today.
"Further information was later received from Belgian Customs confirming the shipment was suspicious."
Police and customs executed search warrants at four Melbourne addresses yesterday and seized large sums of money and the furniture.
A 64-year-old Nunawading man, 33-year-old East St Kilda man and 35-year-old Carnegie man have all been charged
Peace LOve and Mungbeans
