An alleged Victorian crime syndicate has been busted over the largest seizure of ketamine in Australian history following a series of raids.
Three men were arrested at a rural property in Lara near Geelong on Tuesday as police uncovered 174 kilograms of ketamine, a border-controlled drug used by doctors and vets as a pain killer and sedative.
Australian Federal Police launched an investigation in late May after receiving intelligence from Spain’s most powerful police force alerting its London-based officers to a suspicious sea cargo shipment.
The shipment of 360 buckets of liquid cement arrived in Melbourne from Spain on June 26.
It was examined by AFP teams and allegedly found to have about 80kg of ketamine within plastic tubes hidden inside about 40 of the buckets….