Three people have been arrested and 496 kilograms of MDMA seized following a joint Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) operation in Sydney.
The MDMA was concealed in four industrial mincing machines in a shipping container that arrived in Port Botany from Turkey on Friday, 28 September 2018.
ABF officers targeted the container for screening, with their examination of one of the machines locating approximately 60 packages of a brown granulated substance – each weighing around two kilograms – within the door cavity of the mincer. Presumptive testing of the substance returned a positive result for MDMA. Further examination by the ABF revealed each of the four mincers contained similar packages.
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