Three charged after 120kg cocaine found in cabinets from Greece

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 23 Oct, 08:20 · Archive

Three Australians have been charged over an alleged plot to import 120 kilograms of cocaine from Greece. Australian Border Force officers detected anomalies in the consignment on 9 October and conducted X-ray examinations that revealed 120 individual packages of cocaine inside two cabinets that had been declared as household furniture.

The Victorian Joint Organised Crime Taskforce removed the drugs and conducted a controlled delivery of the consignment to an Essendon storage facility northwest of Melbourne's city centre. A 49-year-old woman from Pascoe Vale allegedly attended the facility on Tuesday and coordinated the collection and movement of the consignment. She was arrested later that day. A 31-year-old man from Rockbank allegedly drove the consignment to nearby Keilor, where it was opened and separated, before being arrested. Part of the shipment was then moved to a second vehicle and driven to Glenroy, where a 40-year-old man from Cairnlea was arrested.

All three have been charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug and attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug. Both offences carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The two men were refused bail and the woman was granted conditional bail when all three appeared at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday. They are scheduled to appear at the same court on 10 February.

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• Trio charged after 120kg of cocaine found in cabinetsAn alleged plot to import a commercial quantity of cocaine from Greece may result in possible life sentences for three Australians.Perth Now · 23 Oct, 07:51
• Trio charged after 120kg of cocaine found in cabinetsAn alleged plot to import a commercial quantity of cocaine from Greece may result in possible life sentences for three Australians.The West Australian · 23 Oct, 07:51

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