Customs officers and Federal police have seized a record amount of amphetamines valued at $25 million from a shipping container in Sydney.
While north of the border Queensland police are claiming to have smashed a multi-million dollar amphetamine ring.
The Minister for Customs, Chris Ellison, says the Sydney shipment included 125 kilograms of amphetamines tablets, and 15 kilograms of heroin.
The drugs were concealed in a consignment of pineapple tins shipped from China and have a combined street value of $34 million.
Senator Ellison says customs officers used sophisticated methods to target the container and confirmed the presence of the drugs through an X-ray examination.
A 34 year-old Canadian national and a 42-year-old Chinese national have been charged over the haul and are due to appear in the Parramatta local court later today.
While the article in today’s news says that...
THE middleman in a bid to import up to $15 million worth of heroin and ecstasy into Australia in pineapple tins has been jailed for 20 years.
Canadian national Michael Sui Kwan Leung, 36, was convicted by a jury in July of two charges of knowingly importing 10kg of heroin and 51kg of ecstasy into Sydney in April last year.
The shipment from China was detected by the Customs Service and the drugs replaced by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) who followed the consignment.
taken from Drug middleman gets 20 years
My maths is pretty bad but something doesn't quite add up, they sure did lose a bit along the way
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