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Details of Geraldton drug bust, then Australia's biggest meth seizure, can finally be revealed

AFP officers with meth seized in Geraldton in 2017, in what was then the largest bust the country had seen. (Supplied: AFP)

After almost five-and-a-half years, three Supreme Court trials and countless hours of legal argument, details can finally be revealed about the fate of the 10 men charged over the importation into Western Australia of 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine, worth somewhere between $160 million and $1.1 billion. 

At the time, December 2017, it was Australia's largest ever "meth bust" — the culmination of what was described by Australian Federal Police (AFP) as "the result of complex multi-agency investigation that traversed the country".

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