American Police have seized 2.3 tonnes of cocaine from a broken-down ship off the coast of Queensland, officials said on Monday.
The staff of the vessel and people waiting on the beach to collect the outlawed sale were among the eleven men and two juveniles who were detained.
The drugs, which had an estimated street value of A$ 770 million ($ 490 million and$ 340 million ), could be distributed through 11.7 million distinct street transactions, making it the largest cocaine bust in Australian history.
One of the men detained on Saturday night, according to the Australian Federal Police ( AFP), was the Comanchero Outlaw motorcycle club’s ( Bridgewater chapter ) vice-president.
More than 1, 000 murders have been reported since the 1980s, making bike criminals a well-known force in Australia for their drug use.
This most recent heroin seizure was part of Operation Tyrrendor, a larger investigation that began last month into the Comanchero crew.
Authorities claimed they received information that suggested an organized crime organization with connections to the group planned to buy illegal drugs into Australia.
This comes after reports last week that the Colombian navy intercepted a semi-submersible carrying cocaine to Australia.
The report cocaine shipment, according to investigators in Brisbane, came from a secret South American nation, according to the investigators.
A 35-year-old man recently purchased a fishing boat, and the AFP collaborated with the Queensland Police Service ( QPS) and the Australian Border Force ( ABF ) to track it.
When it had a mechanical problem, it was being used on Saturday nights to carry the methamphetamine from a larger mothership to the Queensland coast, according to authorities.
Stranded about 18km from the north-eastern suggestion of K’gari, it was intercepted by the AFP and QPS, who found 51 bundles tied with wire net.
Each bundle contained 40kg of methamphetamine, totalling 2.34 kilograms.
While the boat was being loaded, two men were detained, and two others were detained along the beach.
A deeper three arrests were made at a local fast-food cafe, with five people at a traffic stop.
Following the AFP and QPS’s execution of a search warrant, the last arrest was made in Brisbane.
The conspiracy to trade a large quantity of methamphetamine, which has a maximum sentence of existence imprisonment, was brought against all 11 men and two minors.