CANBERRA, ACT, March 17 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
This is a joint release between the Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force
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A Brazilian national has been charged over a failed plan to import about 10kg of cocaine into Australia on a cruise ship from Argentina.
The man, 48, is expected to appear before Downing Centre Local Court today (17 March, 2025), charged with importing and possessing border controlled drugs.
Australian Border Force (ABF) officers allegedly found 28 individually wrapped packages of cocaine hidden in the ceiling cavity of the man's cabin when they searched a cruise ship on Saturday (15 March, 2025) after it docked ...