Astronomical cocaine prices have made Australia irresistible for the world’s most powerful drug cartels, groups with industrial-scale supply lines, nation-sized GDPs and arsenals of weapons.
Blood is already being spilled here to secure the market.
National cocaine consumption peaked in 2019-20 at about 5.6 tonnes, according to wastewater analysis, the best measure of Australia’s drug habits. There had been fewer seizures that year, but the AFP had, secretly, spent that time infiltrating global crime groups with the fake encrypted AN0M app.The intelligence gathered in that time saw seizures of cocaine double to 4.7 tonnes in 2020-21 as unwitting criminals realised police around the world were monitoring them in real time.
The flood has been intercepted at the border, and the AFP seized 5.1 tonnes of cocaine in Australia in the last six months of 2022.A further 1.5 tonnes of cocaine, bound for Australia, has been seized offshore in the same time from syndicates so desperate to sell in Australia that they are shipping the drug before even securing a buyer.Schofield and other agents were photographed in Manly, in 1994, with black duffle bags containing 95 kilograms of cocaine pulled from the boot of an old Mercedes.
Alen Moradian was fatally shot in Bondi Junction in late June. He was linked to the Comanchero OMCG which has a controlling presence in the domestic drug trade.Moradian was linked to numerous crime groups, including the Comanchero OMCG and The Commission, a “consortium” of criminals who seek to control the price and distribution of cocaine in Sydney.
Two alleged plots to import 460kg and 850kg of Colombian cocaine were detected in Western Australia last week, with the AFP investigating whether one syndicate had flown distributors out for the job.
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