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Rex Martinich

Drug courier forced by threats into $1m deal, jury told

A Sydney woman has faced a Brisbane court accused of involvement in a million-dollar drug deal. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A woman has told a Queensland jury she unwillingly acted as a courier for a $1.1 million drug deal because her family's lives had been threatened.

Thi Phuong Mai Nguyen, of Cabramatta in Sydney's southwest, has pleaded not guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court to one count of attempting to possess commercial quantities of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug.

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