Still image from an Australian Border Force handout video released on December 17, 2019 shows some of the 200 aluminium barbeques used to smuggle 645kg of MDMA, in Sydney, Australia July 2019. AUSTRALIAN BORDER FORCE/Handout via REUTERS
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police have arrested two men for allegedly smuggling 645 kilogrammes (1,422 pounds) of ecstasy hidden inside hundreds of aluminium barbecues, the culmination of a six-month investigation spanning three countries.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Australian Border Force (ABF) said it had charged a 30-year-old man from Queensland and a 33-year-old Canadian national over their involvement in the criminal enterprise. At well over half a tonne, the haul of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, is the biggest shipment by weight seized in Australia this year.
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