The man appeared at Downing Centre Local Court on 9 December 2024 and was remanded in custody, with a further hearing scheduled for 4 February 2025.

“This is an immense amount of illicit drugs which our officers have stopped from filtering through to the streets, hundreds of thousands of lives not put at risk due to these dangerous substances."

During the search, officers discovered clothing items containing a crystalline substance impregnated into the fabric.

ABF officers inspected the man’s suitcase, where they found multiple vacuum-sealed bags containing a powdery substance.

ABF Acting Commander Asha Patwardhan praised the cooperation between agencies and international partners in intercepting the consignment.

Some crew members were caught smuggling high-value dutiable goods and undeclared currency, violating Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing legislation.

ABF Travel East Commander Rose Cracknell said the volume seized at the border today has stopped hundreds of thousands of individual street deals flooding Sydney’s streets.

The crackdown on disposable vapes follows new regulations that came into effect on 1 January 2024, banning the importation of such products

Canadian authorities alerted the AFP that 2900 litres of liquid methamphetamine, concealed in 180 bottles of canola oil, was destined for Australia.

“This amount of methamphetamine could have been distributed in the Australian community as about 1,000,000 street deals worth an estimated $90 million."