It was labelled by Australian police and politicians a “landmark day” in the never-ending fight against the drug trade.
Close to three tonnes of illicit drugs, mostly ecstasy tablets, speed and ice had been detected by local police and law enforcement, hidden among furniture in a single shipping container that had made its way from Hamburg in Germany to Sydney’s western suburbs.
With the drugs’ estimated street value $1.5 billion, the bust amounted to the second-largest in the nation’s history.
