NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Eastern Command Justine Gough Australian.

Yacht drugs australia. 255pm This is a joint media release between AFP NSWPF ABF and ACIC. Police later confirmed about 40 bags of drugs were found with the stricken yacht the joint bust now referred to as Operation Shipton. The vessels movements continued to be tracked as the joint Australian investigative team prepared for an on water interception.

A huge haul of illicit drugs worth more than a billion dollars has been discovered after a yacht ran aground on an Aussie reef. Australias biggest cocaine bust. A yacht packed with hundreds of kilograms of suspected methamphetamine has been stopped off the coast of NSW with two men accused of trying to import the drug into Australia.

Police allege it carried hundreds of tonnes of drugs. Six men have been charged after more than 14 tonnes of cocaine was found on the yacht Elakha after it was intercepted east of Sydney Australia. And last year Australian Federal Police seized 500 kilograms of cocaine on a yacht in the Solomon Islands.

The yacht was brought to Balmain where the drugs will be unloaded and the full volume of the importation will become known Australian Federal Police said on Sunday. Western Australia Police Force said that they seized about one tonne of illicit drugs. A tonne of drugs worth up to 750 million that was destined for Australia has been seized after police and immigration officers swooped on a yacht.

The luxury yacht was seized off the NSW coast. As a result the Australian investigative team identified a second vessel of interest a yacht known as the LaFayette which was allegedly loaded with drugs from the yacht. A yacht suspected to be carrying a commercial quantity of drugs has been intercepted south of Newcastle as part of an investigation into organised drug.

The drug could have netted 312m once sold. The three men appeared before the Sydney. New Zealand authorities first tipped off their Australian counterparts about the 12-metre yacht Elakha in August 2014 after gathering intelligence.