SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian and Indonesian police have disrupted the largest pseudoephedrine smuggling syndicate to ever target Australia, halting the manufacture of about A$71 million (US$52 million) worth of the drug methamphetamine.
The syndicate allegedly imported more than 380 kgs (836 lb) of pseudoephedrine into Australia on six occasions from early 2005, the Australian Federal Police said in a statement on Thursday.
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