News:Two arrested over $27m ecstasy haul

[Psychadelic_Paisly]

Wednesday 23 July 2003, 4:05 PM
Two arrested over $27m ecstasy haul

About 115kg of ecstasy worth up to $27 million has been found concealed in a shipment of industrial equipment, leading to the arrests of two men in Wollongong.

Customs officers found the drugs when they examined the contents of a shipping container that arrived in Sydney from Europe in mid-July.

X-ray technology and detector dogs were used to examine two large wooden crates, turning up an estimated 390,000 tablets in packets hidden in seven steel filter pumps.

Customs and Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched a joint investigation which ended in Wollongong on Tuesday with the arrest of two Dutch nationals - a 74-year-old man and a 24-year-old man.

They have both been charged with importing a commercial quantity of a prohibited import, possessing a trafficable quantity of a prohibited import and attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a prohibited import.

"The seized drugs have a potential street value of $27 million," said Customs NSW regional director David Collins.

"This seizure is among the 10 largest MDMA (ecstasy) seizures ever made in Australia."

An AFP spokesman said the two men appeared in Wollongong Local Court and were remanded in custody to face the same court on July 30








Well, australian ecstacy producers are having a rough week! (see previous post)

 

[dfi]

fuck this could do something to the melbourne supply of decent beans....
i'm a bit dissapointed about that.. ahahaha.
390,000 pills *jaw drops and starts drooling*
wonder what they were.
DfI

 

[goatyoghurt]

Thats a lotta pills

 

[SteveElektro]

One of them was 74, GO HARD OLD MAN!!!!!!!!!
WH00T!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Psychadelic_Paisly]

I'll put down 400,000 PILLS that he was the grandfather of the younger! Go the family buisness trade!
hehehehe. damn, seeing an old guy on a pill is what will allow me to die a happy man. 8( 8(

 

[En_warp]

it's shit how good quality pills that are imported get busted. Doing this doesn't reduce supply of "ecstacy" but rather allows more dodgy non mdma back garden and sometimes more danderous pills to float the streets and clubs.

i know that e's are illigal but it pisses me off to see good pills go to the police and where left with lebo (sorry bout the sterotyping) produced "sik md" pills.

i just hope the cops want to earn a bit of extra cash so we might have a chance to taste test what we otherwise might miss out on.

 

[apollo]

"This seizure is among the 10 largest MDMA (ecstasy) seizures ever made in Australia."

Fuck I'm sick of these statistics!

Does anything worth $27m need more said about it's size? Every large bust we see is "the biggest in the last 6 months/1 year/2 years/5 years for the region/state/country it happened in!"

 

[Robot Features]

where the hell do they pull their figures from? their arse? they said there was an estimated 390,000 pills and said it was worth 27mill street value. What year do these ppl live in? they think ppl are going to buy a pill for just under 70 bucks!!?


390,000 x 70 = 27,300,000 8(

 

[BigTrancer]

^ Pretty standard calculation for the print press reporting of drug busts.

BigTrancer

 

[bigmick]

where the hell do they pull their figures from? their arse? they said there was an estimated 390,000 pills and said it was worth 27mill street value. What year do these ppl live in? they think ppl are going to buy a pill for just under 70 bucks!!?


390,000 x 70 = 27,300,000 8(

I was under the impression that the governments creative calculations worked as follows
390,000 x 10 (for the guys buying big quantities)
+
390,000 x 20 (for the next guys down the chain)
+
390,000 X 40 (for the end users)
= 27.3 Million.
I know the actual prices might be a bit off, but its just to make a point.
By this reasoning, a pair of $150 shoes probably has a "street value" of $300+. The more times a product changes hands, the higher the "street value"