Record Drug Bust in Australia

CHAN:
Australian police have seized the world's largest haul of ecstasy tablets. Some four and a half tons of ecstasy tablets with a street value of almost half a billion dollars have been seized. Sixteen people have been arrested across Australia and more arrests are expected as raids continue in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

STORY:
Fifteen million tablets of the banned amphetamine ecstasy were found in 3,000 cans of Italian tomatoes shipped into Melbourne more than a year ago.

Australia's top police officer says customs agents replaced the pills with harmless look-a-likes and tracked the delivery.

[Mick Keelty, Australian Federal Police]:
"A tactical decision was made not to declare the fact that we had together seized and removed the possibility of 4.4 tonnes reaching the Australian streets and that gave us the time and the space to analyse and to investigate what did occur here."

Federal police commissioner Mick Keelty says police pounced 12 months later, carrying out raids in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy.

Sixteen people have been arrested so far and more warrants are out.

[Mick Keelty, Australian Federal Police]:
"There had been 10,000 hours of surveillance deployed to this operation to find the perpetrators of this world's largest seizure and importation into our country.”

Police haven't confirmed local reports that the syndicate had links to the Calabrian mafia and an outlawed biker gang.

The ecstasy seized has a street value of 400 million dollars.

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[YonanBarkho]

Now the cops gona sell them and the government gona make good money...

[hurricanebros]

image how crazy the last day shroomz were legal in germany i bet that was a insane day to be there!

[TheForsberg2009]

triple stacked pill to it looks like

[TheForsberg2009]

how do you get caught for that shit, dogs cant smell ex

[joshthe8th]

Im guessing people all over australia stopped dancing that weekend lol

[IAMKYLEIAMGOD]

@shutdowns94 just legalize pot :)

[shutdowns94]

When are we going to accept that drugs aren't going to go away and there will always be people who use drugs, and there always has been since ancient times. We have seen this countless of other times and it makes no difference. We need to grow up, take the trade out of organized crime, send these criminals out of business and focus on chasing real crime. Legalize it, Regulate it, Tax it. I wish the govt and law enforcements would move on from this so called "war on drugs" its a failure.

[AustraliaUncut]

I guess i wont be getting my shipment tonight lol 

[Keith459001]

4 star wanted level???

[imluvinyourmum]

@Wogrfullysic LMFAO AT THIS FAG! go out tonight into ur CBD and yell that out at 2am if ur so tough, i can guarantee that ur a little bitch just from ur own self loving judgement on others.

So u dont drink coffee or alcohol, take vitamins, use any pharmacueticals, or eat more than ur recommended daily intake of sodium, sugar, fat, carbs, protein, calories or any other factor that could effect ur health and exercise precisely as much as u should each day? lol fkwit cant wait till u get bashed

[tunastrike11]

cops are so lucky no wonder there rich they make so much money out of this.

[figbat1]

you deserved to get eaten alive by those bears howdy doody. so you found some cover-ups over in perth....what about your own cover-ups in the AFP a r s e w i p e!