Watch: Australian police seize more than a ton of cocaine from boat, arrest 5 people

The police in Australia seized more than a ton of cocaine and arrested five people in a marine raid last Friday.

the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has said The New South Wales Police Force (New South Wales) first obtained intelligence in relation to a “suspicious purchase” from the 13 -meter Motor Motor, which was paid for “with a large amount of money” in Sarland Shire in Sydney on April 28.

The New South Wales police began an investigation targeting drug supplies and money laundering and continued to collect information, including ship’s movements and group -related persons.

According to Agence France -Presse, the boat officers who are north of the coastal city of Port Makari noted on May 9 and they intended to him while returning to the beach towards the town of South West Rockers, about 50 miles to the north where it left.

Two men were arrested on the 24 -year -old boat, at sea and two companions via a police boat to the beach, where they were transferred to a local police station. Bodycam shots recorded during the raid show large packages of smuggled around a room on a two -storey boat; AFP image shows that at least one of the packages was wrapped in the Louis Vuitton brand.

“The police claim that approximately 1110 pieces of cocaine, which weighing 1.039 tons were present on the ship,” the seized cocaine is equivalent to more than a million individual visits, with a possible value in the street estimated at 623.4 million Australian dollars. “

623.4 million dollars equals about 400 million US dollars.

While the two men were arrested on the boat nine naval miles abroad, three men were arrested in two cars after they stopped while trying to leave the area.

None of the five men were identified by name, and footage has not been clarified before Australian law enforcement. All of them were charged with providing a prohibited drug in a large commercial quantity and participating in a criminal group.

An investigation into the origin of the drug and its alleged partners of the group is still ongoing.

“The vast coastal line in Australia is attractive to organized crime groups, which is trying to use this by trying to import drugs using boats,” Stephen Damito, Australian Federal Police Commissioner, said in a statement to Agence France -Presse. “The bad news for them is that Agence France -Presse will continue to work with our partners to target organized crime unions who think wrongly they can work without punishment.”