Story highlights
- Four charged over the importation and manufacture of 720 liters of methylamphetamine
- Drug was seized from a shipment bra inserts and art supplies
Four people have been charged over the haul, which included 720 liters of the drug formally known as methylamphetamine, the Australian Federal Police said Monday.
Australian customs first discovered around 190 litres of the drug hidden inside thousands of stick on gel bras in a shipment from Hong Kong in December of last year.
A shipment of silicon bra implants, concealing the drug 'ice'.
Delivery of the shipment was tracked to a storage facility where a Hong Kong national was arrested.
Authorities have since arrested one Chinese national and two further Hong Kong nationals in relation to the importation and manufacture of the drug.
Australian Crime Commission NSW State Manager Warren Gray said that joint operations such as this one have a pivotal role to play in the fight against methylamphetamine.
"Methylamphetamine poses -- by far -- the greatest threat to the Australian public of all illicit drug types, and by a significant margin," he said.
He added that all charges could result in life imprisonment.
