Taskforce arrests two for heroin in furniture
This is a joint media release between AFP, Customs and Border Protection, NSW Police, Australian Crime Commission and NSW Crime Commission. A joint law enforcement taskforce has delivered another blow to organised crime and drug syndicates in Australia, arresting and charging two men with the importation of 42kg of heroin carefully secreted in a shipment of furniture. In the early hours of this morning, the Joint Organised Crime Group (JOCG) executed a number of search warrants in Sydney and arrested two Malaysian nationals. The seized heroin has an estimated street-value of $49million. The men, aged 34 and 30, are scheduled to appear in Sydney Local Court today, charged with importing and attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug. The JOCG comprises the Australian Federal Police (AFP), NSW Police Force, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) and the NSW Crime Commission, using specialist expertise to target major organised crime in NSW. The investigation began in late April targeting two Malaysian men. A Customs examination of a container that arrived in Sydney via sea cargo from Malaysia, detected 145 packets of heroin concealed in eight pieces of furniture. The JOCG executed two search warrants in Blacktown and Sydney City during the early hours of 12 May, seizing a number of items relevant to this matter including numerous mobile telephone handsets. The investigation is ongoing in <b>...</b>
