Australia - Crime Gang busted with 50kg of ICE - Drugs Forum: "SYDNEY'S supply of ice could be slashed after a massive bust in which $20 million worth of the drug was found in car parts imported from China. Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday seized 50kg of the drug, also known as crystal methamphetamine, after two men allegedly took possession of the shipment. Police allege the drug smuggling was the work of a highly-organised crime group set to make similar deliveries of 50kg to Australia every month - half of the 100kg they believe is consumed in Sydney each month. The two men arrested on Thursday - ******, 31, and ******, 47, faced court on Friday on drug trafficking charges. 'We would be alleging that these people are very high up in this organised crime group and we are very confident that we have disrupted and dismantled this organised crime syndicate,' AFP Sydney office manager Commander David Stewart told reporters on Friday. Aided by a solicitor and Cantonese interpreter, the two men appeared in Sydney's Central Local Court.
Neither applied to be released from custody and Magistrate Allan Moore formally refused bail until April 7.
*****, from Hong Kong, whose address was given to the court as Parramatta, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday trying to leave the country.
*****, from China, whose residence was listed as Sydney's Holiday Inn, was arrested at a warehouse at Glendenning in Sydney's northwest.
The drugs were delivered to the warehouse on Thursday after arriving in Melbourne nine days earlier. It's alleged the pair removed the drugs from the car parts.
A short time later, search warrants were executed at an apartment in Chatswood, a hotel in Sydney's CBD and a residence at St Leonards, as well as three Melbourne addresses."
Neither applied to be released from custody and Magistrate Allan Moore formally refused bail until April 7.
*****, from Hong Kong, whose address was given to the court as Parramatta, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday trying to leave the country.
*****, from China, whose residence was listed as Sydney's Holiday Inn, was arrested at a warehouse at Glendenning in Sydney's northwest.
The drugs were delivered to the warehouse on Thursday after arriving in Melbourne nine days earlier. It's alleged the pair removed the drugs from the car parts.
A short time later, search warrants were executed at an apartment in Chatswood, a hotel in Sydney's CBD and a residence at St Leonards, as well as three Melbourne addresses."
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