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Maureen Dettre

Second man charged over $20m cocaine haul

Police recovered about 54kg of cocaine packaged in waterproof bricks. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

A second man has been charged as NSW police continue to investigate the death of a diver they believe was involved in a plot to import cocaine worth $20 million.

Police believe 31-year-old Brazilian national Bruno Borges Martins was a drug mule who drowned near the Port of Newcastle while trying to retrieve about 54 kilograms of cocaine - packaged in waterproof bricks - from a ship or the ocean floor in May.

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