Two Melbourne men were sentenced to a combined 33 years in jail on Friday, after hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine was discovered inside coconut milk tins. The duo, who pleaded guilty in court, were members of a crime syndicate posing as legitimate existing companies, to facilitate the freighting of their illegal drug imports. As many as 20 companies were conned into collaborating on the consignments worth nearly $100 million, the Australian Federal Police said.
And Aintree man, 29, was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of ten-and-a-half years. He pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border controlled drug, two counts of trafficking in a drug of a dependence, and fail to comply with an order. The Melbourne man, 39, was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 11 years.
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