CANBERRA, ACT, July 9 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
This is a joint media release between the Panamanian National Police, the Panamanian Public Prosecution Office, the AFP and Australian Border Force.
Twenty-six port workers have been arrested in Panama following a two-year international investigation into an organised crime network allegedly responsible for trafficking more than one tonne of cocaine intercepted in Australia and across Europe.
Police will allege the network used the Port of Balboa as a key transit hub, relying on corrupt port workers and contractors to contaminate refrigerated shipping containers with illicit drugs before they were exported to Australia and Europe.
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