Overview
- AFP officers executed a search warrant on Friday, June 19, and found 2.7 tonnes of cocaine hidden in plastic tubs inside underground bunkers beneath false floors in three shipping containers at a Londonderry property.
- Two men, aged 21 and 25, were arrested at the scene, charged with possessing a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border‑controlled drug, remanded in custody and due to next appear at Penrith Local Court in August.
- Investigators say the shipment was linked to an offload near Midge Point in North Queensland that triggered Operation Minjiang after 40 kg of cocaine was found there in May.
- Authorities have detained an alleged mother vessel, the MV Wealth, in the Solomon Islands and say coordinated searches in Queensland and New South Wales have now recovered more than three tonnes of border‑controlled drugs in the wider probe.
- Police estimate the Sydney seizure is worth about A$816 million on the street and say the case will guide further prosecutions, international inquiries and efforts to disrupt transnational organised‑crime gangs that use Pacific mothership and land transport techniques.