- Powder wrapped in plastic bricks with horse and camel stickers seized on boat
- Six males in Victoria and Queensland charged with importing 186kg of cocaine
- Medicine with road worth of $60 million had been discovered on ex Japanese whaling boat
Six males are charged with plotting to smuggle cocaine price greater than $60 million into Australia on an ex-Japanese whaling boat.
4 males had been arrested in Victoria and two in Queensland after officers carried out 15 raids on Wednesday.
The powder was discovered wrapped in plastic bricks labelled with horse and camel stickers.
The powder was discovered wrapped in plastic bricks with horse and camel stickers
Officers from the Victorian Joint Organised Crime Taskforce in Melbourne decide up plastic bricks containing the cocaine
The lads had been charged with importing about 186kg of cocaine that was seized from a 50-metre former business vessel in December final yr.
Police additionally seized about $93,000 money, medication, stolen vessels and a tablet press after looking homes, factories and boats in Melbourne and resort rooms in Queensland.
The lads had been a part of a 'well-funded, decided and important' organised crime cell, assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan informed reporters in Melbourne on Wednesday.
The syndicate was below surveillance for a few yr earlier than the boat was intercepted in worldwide waters, close to Hobart, on December 12.
The cocaine with a road worth of $60 million was seized on on an ex Japanese whaling boat
Victorian law enforcement officials dealt with a bag of cocaine which was among the many 186kg of medicine seized
Police described the vessel because the 'mothership' the place it's alleged the meant drug offers had been to be carried out off the coast of Tasmania.
The boat was initially noticed circling in worldwide waters off Australia's west coast and escorted to the southern capital by the Navy's HMAS Adelaide.
Ten males, 9 Chinese language and one Singaporean, discovered on board have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
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