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Josh Taylor

Police foil alleged plot to import 30kg of methamphetamine into WA inside 3D printers

Pryce Scanlan
AFP assistant commissioner Pryce Scanlan said authorities suspect the syndicate was trying to import methamphetamine ‘quantities of up to 100kg at a time’. Photograph: Australian federal police

Two men alleged to be senior members of an international crime syndicate have been charged in Taiwan over an alleged plot to import 30kg of methamphetamine into Western Australia hidden inside 3D printers.

It was revealed on Saturday that a 33-year-old man and a 36-year-old man were arrested in July and October this year after they were noticed by the Australian federal police as part of Operation Ironside.

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