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Pair arrested over ecstasy haul
December 16, 2004
TWO men have been arrested in Sydney following the seizure of 161 kilograms of the drug ecstasy with a street value of $40 million.
Bust ... in another recent seizure $200 million of ecstasy was found, the largest haul of its kind in Australia / File
One of the men was in an undisclosed Sydney hospital and will face a court hearing at his bedside later today, sources said.
The other man was denied bail in Central Local Court today and remanded in custody until his next hearing in March next year.
Both men were charged with importing drugs.
The haul of 800,000 tablets of the party drug was uncovered in a shipping container sent from Belgium which arrived in Sydney on November 4, authorities said.
The arrests yesterday followed an investigation by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), WA Police, Federal Police, NSW Police, Customs and the NSW Crime Commission.
No details were available on where the men were arrested or how police tracked down the haul.
Nor was it clear why one of the men was in hospital.
It was unclear what connection the arrests had with the discovery of an undisclosed quantity of the same drug in a car in North Sydney last night.
"The ACC has been focused on gathering intelligence and conducting investigations nationally into serious and organised criminal networks and this result is a testament to the excellent work that is being conducted by Australia's law enforcement agencies," ACC chairman Mick Keelty said.
In November, two people were charged after $200 million of ecstasy was detected in the largest seizure of its kind to be made in Australia.
In that bust, which was also overseen by Customs and Federal Police, 820 kilograms of MDMA, or ecstasy, tablets and powder were found in a container air freighted from Germany to Sydney on October 15.
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Pair arrested over ecstasy haul
December 16, 2004
TWO men have been arrested in Sydney following the seizure of 161 kilograms of the drug ecstasy with a street value of $40 million.
Bust ... in another recent seizure $200 million of ecstasy was found, the largest haul of its kind in Australia / File
One of the men was in an undisclosed Sydney hospital and will face a court hearing at his bedside later today, sources said.
The other man was denied bail in Central Local Court today and remanded in custody until his next hearing in March next year.
Both men were charged with importing drugs.
The haul of 800,000 tablets of the party drug was uncovered in a shipping container sent from Belgium which arrived in Sydney on November 4, authorities said.
The arrests yesterday followed an investigation by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), WA Police, Federal Police, NSW Police, Customs and the NSW Crime Commission.
No details were available on where the men were arrested or how police tracked down the haul.
Nor was it clear why one of the men was in hospital.
It was unclear what connection the arrests had with the discovery of an undisclosed quantity of the same drug in a car in North Sydney last night.
"The ACC has been focused on gathering intelligence and conducting investigations nationally into serious and organised criminal networks and this result is a testament to the excellent work that is being conducted by Australia's law enforcement agencies," ACC chairman Mick Keelty said.
In November, two people were charged after $200 million of ecstasy was detected in the largest seizure of its kind to be made in Australia.
In that bust, which was also overseen by Customs and Federal Police, 820 kilograms of MDMA, or ecstasy, tablets and powder were found in a container air freighted from Germany to Sydney on October 15.
AAP
not another one
