CANBERRA, ACT, July 16 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
This is a joint media release between the AFP, Queensland Police Service, Victoria Police, Australian Border Force (ABF), Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC).
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Three members of a Melbourne-based criminal syndicate, with alleged links to Italian organised crime, were today (16 July, 2026) sentenced for conspiring to import over 500 kilograms of cocaine into Australia from Papua New Guinea.
The men were arrested in July 2020, after an investigation into a black flight by the Queensland Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (QJOCTF) -...