Authorities have seized more than 4,200 litres of 'bute', a dangerous chemical that can be used to spike drinks, that was smuggled into the country over three months.
Benign-looking beauty products and food items have been used to smuggle thousands of litres of a dangerous date-rape drug into the country in the months after import restrictions were tightened. Authorities have stopped the illegal importation of 4,200 litres of butanediol — commonly known as "bute" — in the three months since laws were changed to make it a border-controlled drug.
That led the AFP to search warehouses in the Sydney suburbs of Fairfield and Lidcombe, where they found around 1400 litres in total. Another haul led to 960 litres imported to Sydney from China being found in bottles labelled as essential oils. The drug can be imported legally, but only with the correct permits.
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